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The Museum of Skeletons

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Who’s afraid of a few skeletons? We share bony objects and skeletal artworks from galleries, archives, libraries & museums #openGLAM 💀 #museumofskeletons by @musermeku.bsky.social ☠️ musermeku.org/museum-of-skeletons

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Death disguised as the knight William and his lover Lenore ride past ghostly figures of Death Stipple engraving by Harding after Lady Diana Beauclerk, 1796 Wellcome Collection, Public Domain #museumofskeletons #art #kunst #kultur #gothic
etching: a man and a woman on a horse, flying skeletons behind them
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Pierre-Félix Wiesener: The Ride of a Warrior Ghost (ca. 1850) Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Richard Lewis Hillstrom Fund – Detail #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #art #kultur #gothic
drawing: a skeleton on a horse with a woman in its arm is chased by monks with torches
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Detail from: Pedro de Camprobin: El caballero y la muerte, 17. Jhd., Hospital de la Santa Caridad - Public Domain #museumofskeletons #mementomori #art #kunst #kultur
Painting: A skeleton peeks out from under a veil, sitting at a table with books
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Convento de San Vicente Ferrer, Plasencia Picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons
Mural of a skeleton with a sickle
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Diego Bejarano (Sevilla, 18. Jhd.), Trampantojo Museo de Bellas Artes Sevilla Picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #art #kunst #kultur
Painting of a skull and flowers
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Lucas Cranach: Christ Child Triumphant over Death and Sin (I530-40), detail Museo Lázaro Galdiano / Photo: @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #art #medievalart #medieval #kunst #kultur #mittelalter
Painting: A skeleton is being trampled, next to it a snake coiled around a staff and a lamb
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Cemitério dos Prazeres, Lisbon picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #art #kultur #kunst
Photo: Gravestone: an angel sitting next to an urn above a skull
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Taschenuhr in Form eines Totenschädels, Deutschland, Mitte 19. Jh. GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...) #museumofskeletons #kunst #kultur #geschichte #art #culture
Photo: silver pocket watch with a skull and skull chain
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon pic by @musermeku.bsky.social #art #culture #kunst #kultur #mittelalter #medieval #museumofskeletons
Photo: A skull without teeth on an hourglass
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
A man in armour is confronted by a ghost and a skeleton. Aquatint Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
A man in armour is confronted by a ghost and a skeleton
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Ex Libris from Charles William Sherborn, 1878 Rijksmuseum | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
etching: ex libris with a mother and child, a unicorn and a skeleton
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
We bring you the spirit of #Halloween 365 days all year ☠️🎃👻 Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #spookyseason #kultur #kunst #art
Photo: gravestone with skull and bones
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Various artists/makers, 1545 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur #halloween #spookyseason
Anatomical drawing of a skeleton
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #spookyseason #halloween
Photo: etching of skull and bones on a tombstone
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Skeletons acting out phrases in James Thomson’s „The seasons“: fourteen scenes. Etching by H. J. Pidding, 1822 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Etching: Skeletons shovel earth into a hearse
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
greetings from Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #art #kunst #kultur
Photo: Gravestone with skull and bones
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The Antiquary’s Last Will and Testament (The English Dance of Death, plate 2), Thomas Rowlandson, Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, April 1 1814 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #kultur #art
etching: a skeleton with an arrow and a cat hissing at it
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Sterne and Death: „And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door“, Thomas Patch, British Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Etching: a man is visited by a skeleton with an hourglass
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The dance of death: the masquerade. Coloured aquatint after Thomas Rowlandson, 1816 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
etching: a skeleton in the middle of scared people in a ballroom
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Plate for the ‘Atlas Anatomico’, Crisóstomo Alejandrino José Martínez y Sorli, Spanish, Plate ca. 1680–94; printed 1740 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
anatomical drawings of a male human body and the skeleton of a child
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
The Triumph of Death on Time, from „The Triumphs of Petrarch“, Georg Pencz, German Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Etching: A skeleton with a sickle stands on dead bodies
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb. Etched by Stefano della Bella, Italian, ca. 1648 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Etching: a figure drags an old man, at his feet a skeleton with an hourglass
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Death points an arrow at a female dancer. Aquatint by Joshua Gleadah, 1822 Wellcome Collection, Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #art #kultur
Drawing: a skeleton points an arrow at a female dancer
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The dance of death: the sentinel. Etching by Daniel N. Chodowiecki, 1791 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
etching: a skeleton with hat an boots attacks a soldier
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The dance of death. Etching by Richard Dagley, 1841. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #art #kultur
etching: a skull with spider legs comes out of a fireplace towards an old man on a chair
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The dance of death at Basel: death and the painter. Lithograph by G. Danzer after Hieronymus Hess Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
etching: a man in front of a painting, behind the canvas hides a skeleton
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A human skeleton, seen from the front, resting the bones of his left forearm on a spade handle, after Vesalius. Jean Le Rond d‘Alembert, engraving by Benard, late 18th century, after a woodcut, 1543. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #kultur #art
Etching: A human skeleton, seen from the front, resting the bones of his left forearm on a spade handle
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
A winged skeleton holding a drawing of a seated model, with human bones and skulls on the table and floor beside him. Etching by or after Jacques Gamelin, 1778/9. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Etching: A winged skeleton holding a drawing of a seated model, with human bones and skulls on the table and floor beside him.
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Two figures: a kneeling human skeleton, with hands tied behind its back, and an écorché figure tied to a tree-trunk, Engraving by Inigo Barlow, ca. 1800. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #art #kunst #kultur #museum
Engraving: Two figures: a kneeling human skeleton, with hands tied behind its back, and an écorché figure tied to a tree-trunk
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body ... / Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, 1749 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Drawing: side profile of a human skeleton
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Satan, Sin and Death (Paradise Lost, Book II), Various artists/makers, May 1, 1788 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Etching: a winged man, a naked woman and a skeleton with an arrow
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Triumph of Death from The Triumphs of Petrarch, Attributed to Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, Netherlandish, ca. 1548–49 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #medieval #medievalart #kunst #mittelalter #kultur
etching: a skeleton floating over a dead woman
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Roundel with Vanitas, North Netherlandish, 1510–20 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur #mittelalter #medieval
Glass painting: a skeleton with a spear targeting a bishop
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Book 2, Fable 20: Minos and Death (Minos et la Mort), from „Fables Nouvelles“, Various artists/makers, 1719 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Etching: A skeleton with a cloak and a scythe stands between suffering people
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Sickness Spears the Stag and Death Sounds His Horn (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag), South Netherlandish, ca. 1495–1510 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #kultur #art
a hunting scene with dogs, s stag and a skeleton blowing a horn
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women, Daniel Hopfer, German, ca. 1515 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
etching: two monsters behind two women
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The Dance of Death, Anonymous, German, 16th century Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #art #museum #kultur #kunst
Drawing: dancing skeletons and rich men
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Death, German, mid-17th century Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Sculpture: a skeleton on a horse
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
The dance of death: the old man. Woodcut after Hans Holbein the younger, 1581 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Etching: a skeleton and a old man
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Vanitas Still Life in a Niche, Wallerant Vaillant, Dutch, 17th century Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kultur #kunst
Drawing: a skull on a book and a candle
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Skeletons (calaveras) riding bicycles, José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, ca. 1891 
Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain 
#museumofskeletons #museum #art #kultur #kunst
Drawing: Skeletons riding bicycles
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Tomb with Death Enthroned as a Sphinx, Louis Jean Desprez, French, ca. 1779–84 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Drawing: a skeleton dressed as a Pharao
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Two allegorical figures: a skeleton holding a scythe and a ball of fire stands next to a female figure. Lithograph. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Lithography:  a skeleton holding a scythe and a ball of fire stands next to a female figure
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The dance of death: the monk. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger, 1497?-1543. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #art #kultur #mittelalter
Woodcut: a skeleton dragging a monk
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The dance of death: Death on horseback approaches the city. Woodcut after Alfred Rethel, 1848. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Woodcut: a skeleton with a spear riding on a horse
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Oberrheinischer Meister, Diptychon: Hieronymus Tscheckenbürlin und der Tod, 1487 Kunstmuseum Basel The painting is currently on view in the exhibition „Verso“. Read more about it here: musermeku.org/verso-kunstm... #museumofskeletons #art #culture #kunst #kultur #museum
Two painting, one of a noble man and one of a skeleton
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Death as king holding a scythe. Etching. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Etching: a skeleton with a crown
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others‘ deaths. Coloured lithograph by Godefroy Engelmann, 1788-1839. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
Lithography: A man with pointed ears, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The angel of death (a winged skeletal creature) drops some deadly substances into a river near a town; representing typhoid. Watercolour, 1912, after Richard Tennant Cooper (1885-1957) Wellcome Collection | CC BY 4.0 #museumofskeletons #art #museum #kunst #kultur
Painting: a winged skeletal creature drops something into a river near a town
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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The dance of death: the advocate. Woodcut after Hans Holbein the younger, 1581 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #medieval #medievalart #kunst #museum #art #kultur #mittelalter
Etching: A skeleton with an hourglass next to two merchants
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