Medical History Museum, Melbourne University
The Medical History Museum was established by a grant from The Wellcome Trust and opened on the 13th April 1967. It holds over 4000 items which include objects, photographs, archives and ephemera. The Medical History Museum Collection is fundamentally a research collection, providing local and overseas postgraduate students with the primary resources for their work. The Museum also supports the teaching programs for students undertaking Advanced Medical Science under the new medical curriculum. The Museum houses the reconstructed 1849 Savory and Moore Pharmacy. Three ornate display cases from the Melbourne Internal Exhibition 1880 hold microscopes, microtomes and surgical instruments from the early 1800s to the 1950s.
- www.jnmhugateways.unimelb.edu.au/mhm/introduction.htm
- Brownless Biomedical Library (next to Medical Building), Grattan Street
- The University of Melbourne
- Victoria
- 3010
- Australia
- +61 3 8344 0269
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| ID Local | Title | Description Brief | Updated |
| MHM001 | Melbourne University Medical History Museum Microscopy | The Microscopy collection at the Medical History Museum includes dozens of examples of simple and compound microscopes from 1800-1950. Included are monocular and binocular microscopes; lenses; lamps; and sets of slides. Coverage: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Africa; Japan; Rabaul; New Guinea; 1800 - 1950 | 30 May 2012 |
| MHM003 | Melbourne University Medical History Museum Medical Purging Equipment | Five sets of Victorian era enema and stomach pumps. Coverage: Sheffield; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; London; 1860 - 1900 | 30 May 2012 |
| MHM004 | Melbourne University Medical History Museum Stethoscopes and Phonendoscopes | This collection consists of 56 binaural and monaural stethoscopes and two Phonendoscopes of historical interest. Most are from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and were donated from the Victorian Branch of the Australian Medical Association historical collection of documents in 1994. Coverage: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 1880 - 1970 | 30 May 2012 |
| MHM005 | Melbourne University Medical History Museum Medical Quackery | This collection consists of 15 objects relating to the history of alternative medical practises commonly referred to as 'quackery'. Most are from the nineteenth and early twentieth and including five Révulseur or ""Lebenswecker"" apparatus, vibrators and a phrenology bust. Coverage: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 1840 - 1960 | 30 May 2012 |
| MHM002 | Melbourne University Medical History Museum Blood and Bleeding Equipment | Blood and Bleeding Equipment collection at the medical History Museum holds over 50 items including cautery instruments; snake-bite treatments; scarifiers; lancets; cupping glasses; blood letting sets; and tourniquets. Coverage: Berlin; Germany; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 30 May 2012 |