A British museum is to remove its most famous exhibit from display -- the skeleton of an 18th-century man popularly known as the 'Irish Giant.'
houses a collection of anatomical specimens at London's Royal College of Surgeons of England . It has been closed for five years for a major renovation, but when it reopens in March, its collection of 3,000 objects and specimens on display will not include the skeleton of Charles Byrne.Byrne had an undiagnosed benign tumor of the pituitary gland.
However, the museum's founder, surgeon and anatomist John Hunter, paid friends of Byrne to hand over his body, and three years later he put the skeleton on show in his museum, then situated in London's Leicester Square. Byrne's leg bones feature in the background of a painting of Hunter by famed portraitist Joshua Reynolds.
A press statement from the RCS confirmed the decision to remove Byrne's skeleton from the collection, which also features surgical instruments, models and archive materials that trace the history of surgery from ancient times to the latest robot-assisted operations. It said:"During the period of closure of the Museum, the Board of Trustees of the Hunterian Collection discussed the sensitivities and the differing views surrounding the display and retention of Charles Byrne's skeleton. The Trustees agreed that Charles Byrne's skeleton will not be displayed in the redeveloped Hunterian Museum but will still be available for bona fide medical research into the condition of pituitary acromegaly and gigantism.
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