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A history of art in hospitals

Art historian Anne Wallentine examines art in hospital settings – from its Christian devotional origins to its healing role in modern healthcare buildings.

  • Article

A nose through Blythe House

Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.

  • Interview

Inside the mind of Somewhere in Between’s curator, Laurie Britton Newell

The exhibition's curator shares her secrets.

  • Article

Reversing the psychiatric gaze

Nineteenth-century psychiatrists were keen to categorise their patients’ illnesses reductively – by their physical appearance. But we can see a far more complex picture of mental distress, revealed by those patients able to express their inner worlds in art.

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  • Rameshwaram: inner view of the long temple corridors. Drawing by an Indian artist.
  • The interior of The Landmark centre for people affected by HIV/AIDS featuring various rooms and corridors. Colour lithograph.
  • Physiotherapist with patient in hospital corridor, UK.
  • Corridor. Mental Health Unit. NHS Trust, UK.
  • Two nurses transporting a bed down a hospital corridor
  • ODP moving a hospital trolley bed down a corridor, UK.
  • Melrose Hospital, Melrose, Roxburgh, Scotland: hospital corridor. Wood engraving by C. Butterworth.
  • Royal Free Hospital, London: the corridor to the maternity ward. Process print, 1913.
  • University Children's Hospital, Vienna: a corridor leading to the dining area. Photograph, 1921.
  • High Royds Hospital, Menston, Ilkley, Yorkshire: a corridor. Pencil drawing by Paul Digby, 2003-2004.
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