Part fairground attraction, part science lesson, a new exhibition of grotesquely lifelike waxworks lifts the curtain on the hidden history of medicine and artThe Wellcome Collection in London is about to open a peep show – and of a kind not seen in Britain for well over a century, since the last public museum of medical waxworks was smashed to pieces by the London Metropolitan police. The Wellcome’s normally chaste white galleries have been transformed for a new show called Exquisite Bodies, which gathers together centuries of anatomical models of human bodies and body parts, created to educate, terrify and titillate.The exhibition’s designers say it will be part university lecture, part artist’s anatomy lesson, part Victorian fairground booth.

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Graphic and ghoulish: The Wellcome’s cadaverous Exquisite Bodies show