“Go to any library, pick up your museum pass — you can see a list of all the museums right there,' San Diego Museum Council executive director Bob Lehman said.
Annese said the goal behind the combination of brain research lab and art gallery was to bring brain and society closer together.
The Observatory just opened, and Annese said it’s still a work-in-progress. But several brains are already here — brains donated by people whose life stories are well known to Annese.“ donated by people who had maybe a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease — Parkinson’s. My specialty is brain imaging," Annese said.Human brains are shown in a refrigerator at the Brain Observatory on Jan. 24, 2023.
Annese said putting those images together with a person’s life story can lead to a clearer picture of the disease and perhaps, one day, to a cure. “There’s two kinds of art when it comes to brains. There is so-called neural art, which is making art out of brain images, which we have on our north wall," Annese said."And then there is the imagining. Going from imaging to imagining, that’s what artists do, using introspection, using imagination, and I think that there is a potential in asking artists to team up with scientists to discover how the brain works ...
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