# animate! › Films › The Phantom Museum by The Quay Brothers

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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, live action and animation, museums, medical history, objects, experimental documentary, filmmaker, animator

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**The Phantom Museum – Random Forays into Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical Collection** a film by The Quay Brothers

2003, 11 min 30 sec

![The Phantom Museum – Random Forays into Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical Collection, still: ivory lady white ribbon](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/phantommuseum07.jpg)

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### a film by The Quay Brothers

### animate! synopsis

Sir Henry Wellcome (1853–1936) amassed one of the world’s largest museum collections, capturing human culture and history through medical eyes. **The Phantom Museum** uses animation to imaginatively ‘document’ this extraordinary assemblage and simultaneously reveal an extremely beautiful yet odd inner cosmos of things.

### key credits

**director**
The Quay Brothers

**librarian**
Steven Quay

**animation**
The Quay Brothers

**music**
Gary Tarn

**producer**
Keith Griffiths

**The Phantom Museum – Random Forays into Sir Henry Wellcome’s Medical Collection** film, stills and other materials © Koninck Studios 2003