Figure embodying the element "Arsenic"

3D Model

3D scan of a figure holding a human skull, that is part of the architecture in Hall 6 of the Natural History Museum Vienna. It represents the chemical element Arsenic, symbolized by death. All figures in Hall 6 of the NHM Vienna, including this one, were created by Edmund Hofmann.

Object: Female figure holding a human skull representing “Arsenic”

Collection: Natural History Museum Vienna (contact: Stefanie Jovanović-Kruspel)

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Scanned and edited by Viola Winkler (NHMW)

Scanner: Artec Leo.

Contribution to the digitization project „Einsichten in die gesellschaftspolitische Dimension des NHMW über die Jahrhunderte von der Prägung des Wissenschafts-Verständnisses bis zum Nationalpark in der Lobau“ funded by the BMWKMS