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Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the galleried Hall of Statuary. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.

The Wellcome Research Institution's building, Euston Road, London: the Hall of Statuary of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as arranged in the 1930s. Photograph.

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Arabic pharmacy from Damascus, 1959-1989. Photograph.

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Italian pharmacy, 1935-1946. Photograph.

Part of the collection of pharmaceutical and medical antiques collected by Burkhard Reber and exhibited in Geneva in 1904. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of pharmacy jars. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: anatomy room on the first floor. Photograph.

The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: an exhibition on prehistoric medicine opened in 1951. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Chapel of Votive Tablets. Photograph from a negative of 1913.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: chemistry section of first floor galleries. Photograph, 1926.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: looking through the Primitive Medicine Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1939].

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: south west corner of the former Hall of Statuary, with a display of paintings and glassware. Photograph, 19--.

Galleries and Reading Room

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Historical museums

Images from the collections

Images about Historical museums

Works from the collections

The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: an exhibition on prehistoric medicine opened in 1951. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the galleried Hall of Statuary. Photograph.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: south west corner of the former Hall of Statuary, with a display of paintings and glassware. Photograph, 19--.

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Arabic pharmacy from Damascus, 1959-1989. Photograph.

Historical museums

Images from the collections

Images about Historical museums

Works from the collections

The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, 28 Portman Square, London: an exhibition on prehistoric medicine opened in 1951. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: interior of a reconstruction of a seventeenth-century English apothecary's shop. Photograph.

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the galleried Hall of Statuary. Photograph.

The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: south west corner of the former Hall of Statuary, with a display of paintings and glassware. Photograph, 19--.

The Wellcome Research Institution, Euston Road, London: a reconstruction of an Arabic pharmacy from Damascus, 1959-1989. Photograph.

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