Articles by Laetitia Barbier

architecture

Pop Culture Gargoyles Hidden in Gothic Architecture

morbid monday

Morbid Monday: Time Flies, The Evolution of the Hourglass

Prehistoric Paris: A Giant Silver T-Rex is Stalking the City of Light

notes from the field

Notes From the Field: The Shrine of an American Saint

Rare Da Vinci Anatomical Drawings Go on Display

cemeteries

Morbid Monday: Deciphering An Ominous Cryptogram on a Manhattan Tomb

The Most Beautiful Marine Curiosity Cabinet, Created by Artist Mark Dion

taxidermy

Lonesome George, Last of his Tortoise Kind, Continuing on as Taxidermy

medical museums

Morbid Monday: The Death of Chang and Eng, Conjoined Twins Until the Last

The Love of Aaron Burr: Portraits in Corsetry and Binding

In a Cabinet at Harvard: The Remains of Nabokov's Butterfly Obsession

morbid monday

Morbid Monday: La Santa Muerte, the Skeleton Saint

From Ectoplasm to Trance Art: The Hett Gallery of the Chesterfield Spiritualist Camp

morbid monday

Morbid Monday: Meat is Murder - The Fiji Cannibal Fork

morbid monday

Morbid Monday: The Buddhist Hell Gardens of Thailand

medical museums

Celebrating the Hunterian Museum's Bicentenary

mummies

Morbid Monday: The Macabre Myth of Naples' Anatomical Machines

funeral art

Visit Ghana Coffin Master Artist Paa Joe as he Builds a Lion

Morbid Monday: Mummified Charms and Amulets from the Lovett Collection

egyptian revival

The Resurrected Splendor of an Abandoned Parisian Cinema

french revolution

French Kissed by the Guillotine

Mercurial Mirabilia: Die Wunderkammer Exhibition at the Lodge in NYC

morbid monday

Morbid Monday : Buried in a Lion - The Fabulous Tradition of Ghana Figurative Coffins

body snatching

Morbid Monday : Corpse traffic and cemetery guns in the Golden Era of Body Snatching