Contents: A museum of my own: notes on the front cover, Lisa Temple Cox. Part I Introduction: The fate of anatomical collections, Rina Knoeff & Robert Zwijnenberg; Organ music, Ruth Richardson. Part II Fated Collections: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or, what Richard Owen did to John Hunter’s collection, Andrew Cunningham; Gender, fate and McGill university’s medical collections: the case of curator Maude Abbott, Cindy Stelmackowich; Resilient collections: the long life of Leiden’s earliest collections, Tim Huisman; Inside the charnel house: the display of skeletons in Europe, 1500-1800, Anita Guerrini. Part III Preparations, Models and Users: Adieu Albinus: how the preparations in the 19th-century Leiden anatomical collections lost their past, Hieke Huistra; User-developers, model students and ambassador users: the role of the public in the global distribution of 19th-century anatomical models, Anna Märker; Mapping anatomical collections in 19th-century Vienna, Tatjana Buklijas; Fall and rise of the Roca Museum: owners, meanings and audiences of an anatomical collection from Barcelona to Antwerp, 1922-2012, Alfons Zarzoso & José Pardo Tomás. Part IV Provenance and Fate: The fate of the beaded babies: forgotten early colonial anatomy, Marieke Hendriksen; ‘Not everything that says Java is from Java’: provenance and the fate of physical anthropological collections, Fenneke Sysling; Cataloguing collections: the importance of paper records of Strasbourg’s medical school pathological anatomy collection, Tricia Close-Koenig. Part V Museum and Collection Practices Today: Anatomical craft: a history of medical museum practice, Samuel J.M.M. Alberti; Restoration reconsidered: the case of skull number 1-1-2/27 at the anatomy museum of the University of Basel, Flavio Häner; From bottled babies to biobanks: medical collections in the 21st century, Karin Tybjerg. Epilogue: Ballpool anatomy: on the public veneration of anatomical relics, Rina Knoeff; Leiden declaration on human anatomy/anatomical collections. (The History of Medicine in Context)

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