Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries will completely transform the first floor of the Science Museum, creating a magnificent new home for the most significant medical collections in the world.
Three thousand medical artefacts from the extraordinary collections of Henry Wellcome and the Science Museum Group will go on permanent public display in the world's largest space dedicated to the history of medicine.
Spanning more than 500 years of history, the galleries will reveal moving personal stories and provide a rich historical context for our experience of medicine and health today. Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, the five galleries cover more than 3000m², an area equivalent to 1,500 hospital beds.
Objects gallery
Group of 'Jedi' helmets for use in MRI scanning of the brain, 1984
Science Museum Group Collection
Miniature hospital made for publicity for King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 1932. Humphreys (maker) London
Science Museum Group Collection
Laennec stethoscope made by Laennec, c.1820
The stethoscope is labelled as follows: "This is one of Laennec's original stethoscopes, and it was presented by him to Dr Bégin a French Army surgeon whose widow gave it to me in 1863."
Science Museum Group Collection
Hospital bed cycle, England, 1949. Designed in 1949 by Dr. Ludwig Guttman
Science Museum Group Collection
Paramedic bicycle used within initial trial and development of London's Ambulance Cycle Response Unit
Science Museum Group Collection
Patient side cart from a da Vinci® Classic surgical system for robot assisted minimally invasive surgery used by Lord Ara Darzi in 2001 to perform the first clinical case using a da Vinci system in the UK
Science Museum Group
Amputation saw, 16th century, wrought iron and steel
Science Museum Group Collection
