Support for the RSU Museum of Anatomy play “Corpse Book

In September 2019, the new and modern RSU Museum of Anatomy will open its doors to visitors, with its historic anatomical collection acquiring a new look. Before then – let's search for the truth together with director and actor Varis Klausītājs and the Zīmējumu teātris (The Theatre of Drawings) troupe performing the chamber play for adults "Corpse Book Stories: Skeleton No. 438".

Over the hundred years that the Museum of Anatomy has been in existence, the historic exhibits have become interwoven with stories, where the truth is entwined with legends and facts – with colourful fantasies. One such legendary exhibit is the skeleton of a young man that has been in the Museum of Anatomy since 1925 and was the first body voluntarily donated to the museum. Some say that it was the skeleton of a medical student who shot himself on the Anatomical Theatre grand staircase because of a failed anatomy exam... Others – that it was suicide, committed due to unrequited love... Another person remembers that the skeleton saved the Anatomical Theatre from a fire with a loud rattle of its bones in the night, waking up a sleeping anatomist...

Skeleton No. 438 in the historic exhibition at the Museumof Anatomy, 1980s

Let's search for the truth together with director and actor Varis Klausītājs and the Zīmējumu teātris (The Theatre of Drawings) troupe performing the chamber play for adults "Corpse Book Stories: Skeleton No. 438".

Thanks to the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia and the supporters the play Corpse Book Stories: Skeleton No. 438 was performed three times (31 October, 1 November and 2 November 2018 at 19:25) in the art-house cinema KINO BIZE!

Support for the RSU Museum of Anatomy play “Corpse Book Stories: Skeleton No. 438”

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