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Images from the collections

Images about Museums

215 images from works
  • Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum / organised by Henry S. Wellcome.
  • Wellcome Museum of Medical Science, Endsleigh Court, Endsleigh Gardens, London: a display on prophylaxis on the ground floor. Photograph.
  • Facts about the Ontario Science Centre.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the galleried Hall of Statuary. Photograph.
  • Surrey Rotunda, Sir Ashton Lever's Museum
  • Design for museums at south Kensington. Wood engraving by J. S. Heaviside after B. Sly after R. Kerr, 1864.
  • Scarborough Museum and Cliff Bridge, Scarborough, Yorkshire. Engraving by C.J. Smith.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of instruments of torture and appliances for restraint of the insane. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Museum of Medical Science, Endsleigh Court, Endsleigh Gardens, London: a gallery on the ground floor. 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.
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Works from the collections

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    Museum / by David Thomas and Mary Williamson ; designed by Michael Preston.

    Thomas, David. | Date: [1989]
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    Ideologie der Objekte, Objekte der Ideologie : Naturwissenschaft, Medizin und Technik in Museen des 20. Jahrhunderts Vorträge von der 73. Jahrestagung in Mannheim, 2.-5. Oktober 1990 / herausgegeben vom Vorstand der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik e.V. zu derem 90. Gründungsjubiläum ; [Gesamtredaktion und herausgeberische Betreuung, Ludolf von Mackensen].

    Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik. Jahrestagung 1990 : Mannheim, Germany) | Date: 1991
    • Books

    Medical history centre to open outside London.

    | Date: 1985
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    Ashmolean Museum, Oxford: panoramic view of the statue gallery. Coloured aquatint by C.G. Lewis, 1814, after W. Westall.

    Westall, William, 1781-1850. | Date: 1 September 1814 | Reference: 20981i
    • Books

    Wellcome's legacies.

    | Date: 1998
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