Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Making Faces: The Art and Science
of Forensic Facial Reconstruction

 

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The Cleveland Museum of Natural History's "Making Faces: The Art and Science of Forensic Facial Reconstruction" exhibition explores the process of re-creating facial features from a skull. 

Tissue-depth markers, clay and prosthetic eyes are used in the process.

 

Photo credit: Liz Russell

 

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Linda Spurlock, Ph.D., the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's director of human health and an accomplished facial reconstruction artist, created this sculpture of a modern adult male. The sculpture, along with other reconstructions, sketches, video and hands-on displays, are featured in the Museum’s "Making Faces: The Art and Science of Forensic Facial Reconstruction" exhibition.

 

Photo credit: Liz Russell

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Sketches and sculptures created by Linda Spurlock, Ph.D., an accomplished facial reconstruction artist and director of human health at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, are featured in the Museum’s "Making Faces: The Art and Science of Forensic Facial Reconstruction" exhibition.
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Anne Sanford, supervisor of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History's Physical Anthropology Casting Lab, works to re-create the facial features of Australopithecus afarensis, a 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor known as "Lucy."

 

Photo credit: Peggy Rubinstein

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The exhibition "Making Faces: The Art and Science of Forensic Facial Reconstruction" at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History examines how facial reconstruction is used to solve mysteries of the past and present.

 

Photo credit: Peggy Rubinstein

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This sculpture, featured in The Cleveland Museum of Natural History exhibition, showcases the final stages of Anne Sanford's work to re-create the facial features of "Lucy," a human ancestor. Sanford, supervisor of the Museum's Physical Anthropology Casting Lab, says that the sculpture continues to be a work in progress.

 

Photo credit: Peggy Rubinstein