Stories
- Article
The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
- Photo story
Trans masculinity on the record
Curator of the Museum of Transology in Brighton E-J Scott tells the story behind a few of the 250 objects from the collection, and the powerful effect they had on him as he put trans lives on the record.
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Milk trails round Euston
Where cows once grazed near Wellcome Collection in London, baristas now froth their milk. Esther Leslie uncovers Euston’s dairy-based urban history.
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The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
Catalogue
- Books
Medical museums : past, present, future / editors, Samuel J.M.M. Alberti and Elizabeth Hallam.
Date: 2013- Books
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Medical museums : with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington : the president's address, delivered before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 20, 1888 / by John S. Billings.
Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913.Date: 1888- Books
Military museums of medical history in the Aldershot area / D.W. Wright.
Wright, D. WDate: 1984- Books
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Notes on zoological museums / by J.E. Gray.
Gray, John Edward, 1800-1875.Date: [1864]- Books
Pharmacy museums in Hungary / Maria Vida.
Vida, MáriaDate: 1992