London Museums of Health & Medicine facts for kids

The London Museums of Health & Medicine is a special group that brings together many interesting museums in London, England. These museums are all about health and medicine. They help us learn how doctors, nurses, and scientists have worked to keep people healthy over many years.

This group was started in 1991. Its goal is to share amazing stories and discoveries from the world of health. It helps people understand how medicine has changed and improved.

What Are These Museums About?

These museums are like treasure chests of medical history. They show us old tools, important discoveries, and how people used to live and get better when they were sick. Each museum focuses on a different part of health or medicine.

Exploring Health and Medicine

Visiting these museums can be a fun way to learn. You can see how medicines were made long ago. You might discover how doctors performed operations before modern technology. It's a chance to explore the human body and how we care for it.

The museums and medical organisations that are part of this group include:

• Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
• Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
• Barts Pathology Museum
• Bethlem Museum of the Mind
• British Dental Association Museum
• British Optical Association Museum (College of Optometrists)
• British Red Cross Museum
• Chelsea Physic Garden
• Florence Nightingale Museum
• Foundling Museum
• Freud Museum
• Hunterian Museum
• Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability
• Museum of the Order of St John
• Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Royal College of Nursing Library & Heritage Centre
• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
• Royal College of Physicians
• Royal London Hospital Museum
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum
• Royal Society of Medicine
• Science Museum
• St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum
• St George's Museum and Archives
• Worshipful Society of Apothecaries

See also

• List of museums in London