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The head is displayed within the context of his scholarship and his beliefs – and with reference to prevailing ideas of the time about death and dead bodies. The Jeremy Bentham Mourning ring. That said Bentham’s body and head have had quite a history of their own since 1832. After it was acquired by UCL in 1850, Bentham’s skeleton was ...
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Mar 5, 2020 · Jeremy Bentham with his embalmed head, as seen at University College London in 1956. ... The museum-quality display case was specially crafted to protect the icon from ultraviolet light, dust ...
Oct 3, 2017 · Update, Feb. 24, 2020: While Jeremy Bentham's preserved head is still on display, his preserved body has been moved to a new, ... Rest assured that it is in a museum standard, conservation-grade ...
Jeremy Bentham's preserved real head / Matt Brown, Flickr // CC BY 2.0 Smith kept the auto-icon at his consulting rooms until 1850, when he donated it to University College London, where Bentham ...
Oct 6, 2017 · In life, Jeremy Bentham was a man of many parts. In death, he comes in two parts. The philosopher's preserved body is on permanent display within UCL's cloisters, as per his dying wish. It is ...
Oct 4, 2017 · Stateside Bentham fans will be thrilled to know that his auto-icon will then travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it will be part of an exhibition on the human body.
Bentham did not leave his body to UCL, as it was only given to the College in 1850. For many years the Auto-Icon was displayed in a wooden cabinet in the South Cloisters of the Wilkins Building, but on 20 February 2020 it was relocated to its new case in UCL's Student Centre on Gordon Square. Not surprisingly, this peculiar relic has given rise ...
