Places of Medical Humanities Interest

The Museums of Health and Medicine is a good place to start planning your visit - it has a great website with links and maps.

IN OR NEAR BLOOMSBURY

• Bethlem Royal Archives and Museum
• British Library
  Current exhibitions include: Out of this World and Growing Knowledge: The Evolution of Research
• British Museum
  Current exhibitions include: Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient Worlds and Baskets and Belonging: Indigenous Australian Histories and Living and Dying (Room 24)
• Foundling Museum
  Current exhibitions include: Foundling Voices
• Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons - you can download events programme here
• Wellcome Trust Collection
  Current exhibitions include: Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life and Medicine Man and Medicine Now

BEYOND BLOOMSBURY

• Florence Nightingale Museum
• Freud Museum
  Current exhibitions include: les paris sont ouverts
• Museum of London
  Current exhibitions include: Street Cries: Images of London’s Poor from the 17th to the 19th Century and London Street Photography and London Sleeps: An Art Student in the Blitz
• National Portrait Gallery
  Current exhibitions include: Only Connect
• Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
  Regular events (http://www.thegarret.org.uk/events.htm) include: Speed Surgery: Surgery in the 19th Century (Saturdays 2.00pm), Herbs, the Garret and the Old Operating Theatre (Sundays 2.00pm)
• Royal College of Physicians Museum and Garden
  Current exhibitions include: Re-framing Disability: Portraits from the Royal College of Physicians
• St Bartholomew’s Museum
• Victoria & Albert Museum
  Current exhibitions include: The Cult of Beauty: The Aesthetic Movement 1860-1900