I can’t stop writing about the Wellcome Collection at the moment. Their three galleries are a must-see for any London scientist or, indeed, non-scientist.

Just four days after opening, they have another announcement. From the press release:

Wellcome Collection will be the first institution in the UK to display an example of Gunther Von Hagens’s pioneering plastination procedure on a permanent basis. The latest arrival to Wellcome Collection is a plastinated slice of a human body which has been frontally dissected. It will join a number of modern artworks relating to health and wellbeing housed in the Collection’s permanent gallery, Medicine Now.

Von Hagens, you may remember, is the slightly sinister character behind the Body Worlds exhibition, which displayed preserved human corpses at the Truman Brewery a few years back. The Medicine Now gallery, with its blend of science and art, seems the perfect resting place for his work.

Image from the Body Worlds exhibition from Zesmerelda’s Flickr photostream.