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The museum has its origins in the natural history collection created in 1841 by the curate P. Ax. Hultman in 1841 in Nya skolan, a private school established by Hultman. In 1851 the collection was taken over by the newly established Skånskt naturhistoriskt museum. In 1890, Malmö City Council decided to take over ownership of the museum and in ...
Indiana Medical History Museum, Indianapolis; International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; Medical History Museum, Dr. Christopher S. Best House and Office, Middleburgh, New York; Mütter Museum, Philadelphia; National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, Maryland; Touma Museum of Medicine, Huntington, West Virginia
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 ]
The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. [1] The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) in 1862; [2] it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011. [3]
Sediul Muzeului de Științele Naturii (Mureș County Museum, Natural History Department), Târgu Mureș; Székely National Museum (Székely Nemzeti Múzeum), Sfântu Gheorghe; Szekler Museum of Ciuc (Csíky Székely Múzeum), Miercurea-Ciuc; Vrancea Museum, Natural Sciences Department, Focșani
The left side of the room exhibits a collection of Etruscan, Roman, Greek and modern ex-votos concerning health. Showcase B5 displays a horn assembled on a bronze unicorn , while showcase B4 shows a bezoar , some portable pharmacies dating between 17th and 19th centuries and terra sigillata pills; showcase B2 shows an ivory anatomical Venus ...
The present buildings for the museum in Frescati, Stockholm, was designed by the architect Axel Anderberg and completed in 1916, topped with a dome. As of 2014 it is the largest museum building in Sweden. [1] The main campus of Stockholm University was later built next to the museum. [6] The Swedish Museum of Natural History Side Entrance
The museum was founded on October 1, 1957 and open to visitors in 1961. The basis of the museum was the gift of the professor Pauls Stradiņš (1896–1958). The idea to create a museum of the history of medicine came from professor Stradiņš in the 30s of the XX century, when his personal collection of medical exhibits gained fame among his colleagues.