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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.

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].

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

Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: reconstruction of a seventeenth-century Turkish drug shop. Photograph.

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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--.

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

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Historical museums

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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 referencing 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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