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Leiden, Netherlands
Sieboldhuis
The west's first Japanese museum and the origin of East Asian studies.
Dublin, Ireland
Museum of Curiosities
A two-storey cabinet of wonders filled with the bizarre, the macabre, and the downright uncanny.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Edinburgh Anatomical Museum
A collection of unique objects showcasing the university’s achievements in the medical field.
Athens, Georgia
Carter-Coile Country Doctors Museum
This tiny museum honors the rural country doctor experience.
Sacramento, California
Museum of Medical History Sacramento
A fascinating and comprehensive look at the evolution of medical practice in the Sacramento Valley since the mid-1800s.
Leiden, Netherlands
Anatomisch Museum Leiden
Some of the specimens on display at the Leiden University Medical Center have been helping educate physicians since the 17th century.
St. Augustine, Florida
Disease Vector Education Center
The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.
medical museums
Podcast: A Journey Through Death With Joanna Ebenstein
What does our fascination with mortality reveal about who we are?
Basel, Switzerland
Anatomical Museum Basel
A journey through every aspect of the human body.
Saranac Lake, New York
Saranac Laboratory Museum
A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.
Cape Town, South Africa
Heart of Cape Town Museum
The first successful human heart transplant is depicted through wax figures at the hospital where it the surgery took place.
Toulouse, France
Musée de l'Histoire de la Médecine (Museum of the History of Medicine)
A journey through the history of medicine throughout the centuries.
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Podcast: The Hand Collection
A museum that gives new meaning to the term "hands-on."
Rockville, Maryland
Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine
This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Martha and Marie
Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.
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The 19th-Century Woman's Secret Guide to Birth Control
Shared books, homemade concoctions, and a whisper network thwarted Gilded Age efforts to limit women’s access to health care.
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Podcast: Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum
Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
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Darwin’s Squeaky Beans and 139 Victorian Skulls: Our Favorite 2021 ‘Secret Lives of Museums’ Stories
Let’s sneak into where museum visitors can’t.
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