Medical museum

The History of Medicine Museum, Stockholm
Exhibition in the History Museum of Medicine of the Tehran University.
A skeleton in the Iranian National Museum of Medical Sciences, Tehran

A medical museum is an institution that stores and exhibits objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest that have a link to medicine or health. Displays often include models, instruments, books and manuscripts, as well as medical images and the technologies used to capture them (such as X-ray machines).[1] Some museums reflect specialized medical areas, such as dentistry, nursing, this history of specific hospitals, and historic pharmacies.

Professional organisations of medical museums include the Medical Museums Association, who publish The Watermark (the quarterly publication of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences),[2] and The London Museums of Health & Medicine.[3]

  1. ^ Alberti, SJMM (2016). "A history of Edinburgh's medical museums" (PDF). Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. 46: 187–197. doi:10.4997/JRCPE.2016.311.
  2. ^ "Medical Museums Association". medicalmuseumsassociation.org. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
  3. ^ "Medical Museums". medicalmuseums.org. Retrieved 2016-11-02.