Medical museums

Recommendations for places to immerse yourself in medicine:

Been to
1) The Wellcome Collection - London (beautiful reading room upstairs with names of the greats on the wall below the gallery.  Huge library and cross-cultural insights into medicine through history.  Obscure collections include African/European statuettes of erotica!

Wellcome Collection Reading room

2) Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Museum - London (excellent history of surgery, as well as cabinets of surgical devices and obscure pathological cases.

Irish giant at the Hunterian

3) RCS Wellcome Museum of Anatomy & Pathology - London (amazing space, with healthy specimens lined up next to pathological ones.  NB: only open to those in the medical profession, including students; no photos

Study zone at Wellcome Anatomy & Pathology museum - free suturing practice available

4) Semmelweis Museum of Medical History - Budapest (has two collections - a medical history one in memory of Ignaz Semmelweis one of the fathers of antiseptic technique, whose unfortunate approach didn't win him much support while alive, has wonderful full-body medical wax models from the 16th century; second collection is of Hans Selye's extraordinary work into stress / coping / resilience and its effect on the body).

Susini's Anatomical Venus @ Semmelweis - c. 1790s.  Body hasn't changed much!

5) The Old Operating Theatre & Herb Garret - London (history of surgery in London - an example of how things were done in the past, and how lessons were learned from the mistakes)

Old Operating Theatre by Guy's Hospital - looks just like that featured in The Knick

6) Body Worlds - the one of Gunther von Haagens pedigree, currently on tour the USA, Germany, Poland, Netherlands (excellent for anatomical insight, a mixture of human and animal plastinated models)

Body Worlds - exhibition full of curious poses

Future plans!
Freud Museum - London
Maguro Parasitological Museum - Japan

Links:
London Medical Museums: http://medicalmuseums.org
Medical Museums of the world: http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/photos/7-unusual-medical-museums/weird-science
Semmelweis Meseum: http://www.semmelweis.museum.hu/muzeum/index_en.html

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