sites in europe
Alphabetical Order by Country and City.
Note URLs for the websites change often. If you get an error, try Googling on the name of the institution
AUSTRIA
Vienna
Pathological Anatomy Museum (Pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum Wien)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/narrenturm
http://www.pathomus.or.at/
Sigmund Freud Museum
http://www.freud-museum.at/cms
Josephinum Medical Museum
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/josephinum-medical-museum
Museum of Contraception and Abortion
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/museum-of-contraception-and-abortion
BELGIUM
Bruges
The Memling Sint-Janshospitaal Museum (St. John's Hospital)
CZECH REPUBLIC
Prague
Medical Museum, National Library (open only 1 day a week or on request)
https://muzeum.nlk.cz/en/
Museum of Historical Chamber Pots and Toilets
Vyšehradská 12, Prague 2
www.muzeumnocniku.cz
Open Tues–Sun from 10:00 to 18:00
Hrdlička Museum of Man
Viničná 7, 128 00 Prague 2
www.muzeumcloveka.cz
Open Wed–Fri 10:00–18:00
Sex Machines Museum
http://www.sexmachinesmuseum.com/en_page.html
Old Jewish Cemetery
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Jewish_Cemetery,_Prague
DENMARK
Arhus
Steno Museum für Wissenschafts- und Medizingeschichte Århus
http://www.stenomuseet.dk/foyer.htm
Copenhagen
Medical Museion
http://www.museion.ku.dk/
ENGLAND-- see UNITED KINGDOM
FINLAND
Helsinki
Museum of Medical History
http://www.museo.helsinki.fi/english/
FRANCE
Beaune-- near Dijon (Burgundy)
An old hospital very worth seeing: Hospices de Beaune or Hôtel Dieu de Beaune
Hautefort (Perigord)
Old hospital museum-- Musée de la médecine at the Chateau
http://www.musee-medecine--hautefort.fr/
Lyon
Very old hospital
http://www.chu-lyon.fr/web/Histoire%20des%20HCL_92.html
Marseille
Had a horrible plague in 1720...local museum takes note of it...
http://www.marseille.fr/sitevdm/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?page_id=187
Abbaye St Victor-- romanesque abbey on the old port
http://www.saintvictor.net
Montpeillier
Medical school-- oldest continuously operating in Europe. Museum is in a former convent
http://www.tomolis.com/anatomie/histoire.htm
Jardin des plantes-- part of university and old medical school
http://www.univ-montp1.fr/histoire_et_patrimoine/jardin_des_plantes
Paris
Musée de l'Assistance Publique (of hospitals), Quai de la Tournelle
http://www.aphp.fr/index.php?module=musee&action=fo_accueil&vue=fo_accueil
Musée de l'histoire de la médecine (12 rue de lEcole de medecine)
http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/musee/
Old Ecole de médecine (12 rue de L'Ecole de Médicine)
Right near Sorbonne just off Blvd St Michel near when it meets Blvd St Germain...metro stop Odeon
Has a historical section for rare books and archives in the library. Home of Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine
http://www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/histmed/debut.htm
http://www.parisdescartes.fr/fre/CULTURE.Musees/Musee-d-histoire-de-la-Medicine
Centre des Cordeliers 15, rue de l'Ecole de Médecine
75006 PARIS (across from the road above)
Convent of Cordeliers-- formerly a convent, then surgical school
Home to Musée Dupuytren--anatomical specimens
http://en.parisinfo.com/museum-monuments/100034/musee-dupuytren?1
http://www.upmc.fr/fr/culture/patrimoine/patrimoine_scientifique/musee_dupuytren.htm
Also houses a photography museum
http://www.photographie.com/?cmpid=113357
College St Come building (5 rue de l'école de médecine near Convent des Cordliers)
A small, round 18th century building that was a surgical teaching centre
Catacombes (near Place Denfert Rochereau)
not always open-- more bones that you have ever seen!
http://www.catacombes-de-paris.fr/english.htm
Sewers (Les Egouts)-- near Eiffel Tower
http://egouts.tenebres.eu/visite.php
Parisian Hospitals (use Wikipedia entries)
Hopital St Louis...beautiful architecture...near canal St Martin
http://www.chu-stlouis.fr/histoire.htm
Hotel Dieu...next door to Notre Dame
http://www.hotel-hospitel.com/ang/accueil.htm
La Salpetrière-- for psychiatric and nervous diseases
Port Royal-- linked to abbey outside Paris for maternity
Val de Grace-- military hospital Musée du Service des Armées
http://www.ecole-valdegrace.sante.defense.gouv.fr/organismes-rattaches/musee-du-service-de-sante-des-armees
Musée d'Histoire Naturelle
www.mnhn.fr/
Jardin des Plantes (at museum above-- it has a medical botany section)
Tonerre (Burgundy)
Old hospital museum-- Le Viel Hôpital or Hôtel Dieu
GERMANY
A webdirectory of historical institutions and statistics can be found at Clio Online
http://www.clio-online.de/
Berlin
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum (BMM) der Charité
http://www.bmm.charite.de/
Bonn
Horst-Stoeckel--Museum für die Geschichte der Anästhesiologie
http://www.ukb.uni-bonn.de/quick2web/internet/internet.nsf/vwUNIDLookup/7B886711928F6CC5C1256F25003F1327
Dreden
German Pharmacy Museum
Deutsches Apotheken-Museum
http://www.deutsches-apotheken-museum.de/englisch/museum-en.php
Ingolstadt
German Medical History Museum in the old anatomy building
Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum (Alten Anatomie)
http://www.dmm-ingolstadt.de
Kiel
History of Pharmacy Museum
Medizin-und Pharmaziehistoirsche Sammlung
Brunswiker Str. 2
24105 Kiel
http://www.med-hist.uni-kiel.de/
Remscheid
Deutsches Röntgen-Museum Remscheid
Schwelmer Straße 41, 42897 Remscheid
http://www.roentgen-museum.de/
Selb
European Museum fir Technical Ceramics
Europäisches Museum für Technische Keramik
A section on High Tech and Medicine
Porzellanikon Selb Werner-Schürer-Platz 1 D-95100 Selb
http://www.porzellanikon.org/index.php?id=195
Frankfurt
German orthopedic history and research museum
Deutsches Orthopädisches Geschichts- und Forschungs Museum e.V.
Marienburgstr. 2 60528 Frankfurt am Main
http://www.orthopaedie-museum.de/
Wasserburg am Inn
Städtisches Museum im Heimathaus, Wasserburg am Inn
Has sections on trades and one room devoted to medicine
Herrengasse 15-17, 83512
GREECE
Epidaurus
Temple of Aesculapius
Cos-island
Legendary home of Hippocrates
HUNGARY
Budapest
Semmelweis Museum of Medical History
Semmelweis Orvostörténeti Múzeum
http://www,semmelweis.museum.hu/
ITALY
Throughout Italy old convents and churches often maintained homes for the sick
Italy has a searchable website for science in museums
17 hits for medicina throughout the country--
http://www.lascienzaneimusei.it/
Bologna
Old anatomical amphitheatre Teatro anatomico
http://www.comune.bologna.it/archiginnasio.storia_palazzo.visita6.htm
Florence
Museo della Specola-- anatomical museum; wax figures
http://www.msn.unifi.it/CMpro-I-s-11.html
Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents)--
Foundling hospital with a "turn" for dropping off unwanted children. Decorated with medallions by de la Robbia
Scientific Itineraries in Tuscany-- see themes for Hospitals and Medicine
http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/interaries/index.html
Museo Galileo
http://www.museogalileo.it
Padua
Il Bo-- and old medical school with Fabrician amphitheatre
Galileo's lectern, Versalius and William Harvey studied here
Pavia
Museum of Pharmacy-- Antiche Farmacia-- near cathedral
also a virtual museum for history of pharmacy
http://chifar.unipv.it/museo.storia-vasi/Mtr_S.HTMl
Rome
Basilica of Saints Cosmas and Damian (martyr doctors) in Roman forum, off via dei Fori Imperiali
Roman Forum...weel of Juturna-- a healing site
Diocletian baths (near Termini train station)
Caracalla Baths (Terme di Caracalla)
Museuo Storia della Medicina
Viale dell'Università n.34/a, 00185 Roma
http://histmed.it.museo.museo.htm
Santo Spirito in Sassia Hospital-- has museum of medical history; offers tours
Museo nazionale di arte sanitaria, Lungotevere in Sassia, 3
Sicily, Agrigento, Valley of Temples, Temple of Aesculapius
NETHERLANDS
Amsterdam
Hortus Botanicus
http://www.dehortus.nl/Index.asp
Leiden
Boerhaave Museum
http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/newtonmania/
Botanical Garden – Hortus Botanicus
http://www.hortus.leidenuniv.nl/
Oudewater
Witches Weigh House
SPAIN
Barcelona
Museu de Storia de la Medicine de Catalunya
http://www.museudelamedicina.cat/eng/exposicions/home.htm
Hospital of Santa Creu and San Pau, founded 1401
important site of 20thC architecture
http://www.santpau.cat/patr_historia.asp
SWEDEN
Stockholm
The Nobel Museum – Nobel Museet
http://www.nobelmuseum.se/zino.aspx?lan=en-us
Virtual Museum
http://nobelprize.org/nobelmuseum/index.html
SWITZERLAND
Basel
Anatomisches Museum der Universität Basel
http://www.unibas.ch/anatomie/museum/
Bern
Sammlungen des Medizinhistorischen Instituts der Universität Bern
http://www.mhi.unibe.ch/content/bibliothek_sammlungen/museale_sammlungen/index_ger.html
Geneva
Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (MICR)
http://www.micr.org/
Zurich
Medizinhistorisches Museum der Universität Zürich
http://www.medizin-museum.unizh.ch/
TURKEY
Ephesus – ancient city Aesclepion
Pergamom - ancient city; home of Galen
UNITED KINGDOM
Bath
The Roman Baths and Pump Room
http://www.romanbaths.co.uk/
Glasgow
Hunterian Museum
http://www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/
Museum of Dept of Anatomy, U Glasgow (near Hunterian)
William Hunter's amazing dissections --best to book in advance
http://www.gla.ac.uk/faculties/fbls/ib/themuseumofanatomy/
Kelvingrove Museum
http://www.glasgowmuseums.com/venue/index.cfm?venueid=4
Leeds
Thackray Museum
http://www.thackraymuseum.org/
London
Wellcome Library near Euston Station...one of the greatest history of medicine libraries in the world.
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/
Wellcome Collection
http://www.wellcomecollection.org/
British Library (near Wellcome Library)--worth seeing, always has public displays.
http://www.bl.uk/
Science Museum-- has a big Medicine collection
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/about_us/about_the_museum/collections/about_the_colletions/medicine.aspx
Broad St. pump -- a handleless pump in Soho on a street now named Broadwick St. (near John Snow pub)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadwick_Street
Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons (nice neighbourhood--with grand old bldgs)
http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/
Foundling Museum
http://www.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/
The Old Operating Theatre, Guy's and St Thomas Hospital
http://www.thegarret.org.uk/
Florence Nightingale Museum
http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/
Freud Museum, London
http://www.freud.org.uk/
Manchester
Medical School Museum
http://www.medicine.manchester.ac.uk/museum/
