This exhibition celebrates the re-opening of the J T Wilson Museum after its recent refurbishment. The curators and architects have combined forces to provide a striking modern environment for anatomical study which does justice to the collection built up over more than a century by our anatomy staff and students. With the opening of the medical school and the arrival of Professor Anderson Stuart, anatomy took a central place in our medical curriculum. In 1890, James Thomas Wilson was appointed as Foundation Challis Professor of Anatomy. Since Anderson Stuart’s time there have been a series of Professors of Anatomy, each who have made significant contributions to Anatomy within the University and elsewhere. Their biographies and achievements are depicted alongside a photo gallery of the first 60 years of prosectors. Exhibition: From October 1 2008 to end March 2009.

Written by Drs Lise Mellor, Vanessa Witton and Professor Yvonne Cossart. Enquiries: Dr Lise Mellor 9036 3366.

Adorning the walls of the Bosch Medical Library are a selection of reproductions of caricatures drawn by Lionel Lindsay of Faculty members in 1916. The original caricatures were commissioned and paid for by medical students to illustrate the pages of the Sydney University Medical Journal and Senior Year Books. They were reprinted voluminously over the years and the originals now rest in the University of Sydney Art Collection. Exhibition: Permanent exhibition as part of the Medical Heritage Trail. To purchase copies of these Lionel Lindsay caricatures click here. Funds raised will go to the restoration of MedSoc photographic archives. Any enquiries can be directed to the managing curator Dr Lise Mellor.

Professor John Smith was Foundation Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. He was an exceptionally talented amateur photographer and his photographic work has historical significance in terms of the development of the visual arts in Australia. Aside from his service to the University, Professor Smith’s lasting memorial is an extensive collection of historic photographs of the University and Sydney surrounds taken between 1855 and 1880. This exhibition of 20 of his photographs shows his broad reaching interest in photographic technique and subject. Within the University he documented the building of the Great Hall and Main Quadrangle, the first sandstone buildings at Grose Farm. Smith was also a skilled portrait photographer and his work represents family, friends and University associates of the time. His interior family and group portraits also show us something of mid nineteenth century social life and interior architecture. He was equally accomplished as a landscape photographer, evident in his beautiful images of Sydney Harbour, Woolloomooloo, Lane Cove River and the Blue Mountains. Because of the long-timed exposures, typical of photographic technique at that time, Smith himself is present in many of his photographs. From November 24 2008 until February 27 2009.

Fisher Library Opening Hours during University term Monday to Thursday 8.30am -10pm Friday 8.30am -8pm Saturday 9am -5pm Sunday 1pm -5pm This exhibition is part of the Medical Heritage Trail. To purchase copies of these John Smith photographs click here. Funds raised will go to the restoration of photographic archives. Enquiries: Dr Lise Mellor 61 2 9036 3366.