sites in europe
Alphabetical Order by Country and City
AUSTRIA
Vienna
Pathological Anatomy Museum (Pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum Wien)
http://www.pathomus.or.at/
Sigmund Freud Museum
http://www.freud-museum.at/cms
BELGIUM
Bruges
The Memling Sint-Janshospitaal Museum (St. John's Hospital)
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/
AUSTRIA
Vienna
Pathological Anatomy Museum (Pathologisch-anatomisches Bundesmuseum Wien)
http://www.pathomus.or.at/
Sigmund Freud Museum
http://www.freud-museum.at/cms
BELGIUM
Bruges
The Memling Sint-Janshospitaal Museum (St. John's Hospital)
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/
