Project Summary

During my work with the Rudolf Virchow collection, I conducted on-site analyses of human skulls and produced detailed technical drawings for scientific documentation purposes. The focus of this work was the accurate recording of post-mortem damage, specifically to document and differentiate fractures and losses that occurred during storage and handling processes.

I developed a full set of standardized orthographic drawings of the skull, including frontal, posterior, superior, left, and right views, ensuring consistent visual documentation across all perspectives. These drawings were designed to function as a clear and reliable reference for comparative analysis and long-term archival use.

In addition to the complete specimen documentation, I created approximately fifteen individual case-based records for provenance research. These visual documents supported the systematic evaluation of fragmentary conditions and contributed to the reconstruction of object histories within the collection context.