Putting the history of medicine at the heart of the Science Museum: Curating the new medicine galleries Selina Hurley, Science Museum

Event details

Health Sciences Lecture

This is a joint event with the Department of History.

Please note that this event has been postponed from the original date of Tuesday 3 December and will now be held on Tuesday 28 January 2020. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. 

Due to be completed in late 2019, the Science Museum’s new Medicine Galleries will transform the first floor of the museum, creating a magnificent new home for the medicine collections. Bringing together the extraordinary collections of Henry Wellcome and the Science Museum, this is the one of the most significant medicine collections in the world. The suite of five galleries will reveal personal stories about how our lives have been transformed by changes in medicine and health over the last 400 years. This lecture will reveal some insight into how one of the biggest projects in the museum’s history developed including some of the challenges - the size and scale of the project, its 25-year display life, encountering ethical and sensitive issues such as the history and legacy of the impact of thalidomide, which will be a case study for this lecture.

NB: There will be a drinks reception after the event.