The go-to-guide for collections, libraries and expertise relating to the history of medicine.

Visit one of London's museums of health and medicine to discover extraordinary stories.

From herbs, heart surgery and helicopter emergency services, to pharmacies, false teeth and forensic pathology, our museums provide remarkable insights into humanity's age-long campaign for good health.


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