Medical Equipment
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The Museum collects a wide range of medical equipment that demonstrates how medicine and healthcare have changed over time.
Our collection is particularly strong in European surgical instruments from the 1600s to the present day, and instrument makers’ patterns dating from the late 1800s.
We also collect equipment supplied to and used by healthcare providers, including hospital and dental equipment, and have an important collection of British anaesthetic equipment.
There is a representative collection of mainly British first-aid equipment and domestic medicine, and a small collection of British patent medicines and quack cures. The Museum collects medals, tokens and coins with medical links.
We also have a nationally significant collection of hearing aids and audiology equipment, including the British Society of Audiology collection.
