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The Hunterian Museum presents a Spring series of events revealing the connections between microscopy and medicine. The programme includes three talks to be given by curators from the British Optical Association Museum, the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum and the Benjamin Franklin House.

 
This Spring the London Museums of Health and Medicine will be turning the 'Lens of Life' on the pioneers of microscopy.
 
The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England presents a series of events for adults and families that reveal the connections between microscopy and medicine. The Lens of Life programme will run from February to May and has been organised as part of the Royal Society's 350th anniversary celebrations in 2010. It will bring together medical museum curators, historians and surgeons to tell the stories of those whose work in microscopy has changed our understanding of medicine and disease.
 
Starting with the opening of the Hunterian's new exhibition Curious: the art of microscopy (Tuesday 16 February-Saturday 3 July) there will be family workshops, free lunchtime lectures and tours of a number of medical museums including the British Optical Association Museum, the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum and the Benjamin Franklin House, as well as evening talks on Robert Hooke, Joseph Lister and the use of microscopy in the development of transplant surgery.
 
For more information and details of how to book these events visit the Hunterian Museum website.
 

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