Medical innovations
The collections represent many of the medical, scientific and engineering breakthroughs used to save or improve people’s lives, as well as some of the failures of modern medicine.
Anaesthesia
From local to general pain relief.
Antiseptics
Methods to clear germs which can save lives.
Audiology
One of the largest collections of hearing aids and equipment in the UK.
Blood Transfusion
Billions of pints of donated blood saves lives each year.
Prosthetics & Orthotics
Devices to support, correct, enhance or replace parts of the body.
Stethoscopes
Tools which started modern western diagnostics.
X-rays
Imaging technology that lets us see more than bones in the body.