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Exciting Exhibitions

Click on the different rooms below to find a summary of that room.

Having a baby

What is it like to have a baby? This exhibition uses real stories to explore how the experience of giving birth has changed since 1890.

Surgery

Since the mid-1800s, the world of surgery has been transformed by innovations that you can explore here.

Hannah Dyson's
Ordeal Film

Have you got the stomach to witness Hannah's ordeal?

Wilkinson Collection

Here you'll find an amazing array of 600 earthenware drug jars collected by the Manchester physician Dr John F. Wilkinson.

Life Zone

Did you know that your intestines are over 9 metres long, or that your brain smells of strong cheese? Your body is amazing!

Disease in Retreat

After experiencing the squalor of Victorian Leeds, find out how scientific discoveries helped us to understand disease and revolutionise medicine.

Health Choices

There were as many treatments as there were theories about the causes of illness. In Health Choices you can investigate some of the cures on offer in 1842.

Leeds 1842

Step back in time to 1842 and experience the sights and sounds of Victorian Leeds!

Dr Baker Introduction

Almost half of all patients undergoing major surgery in Victorian times died.