I went to the Hunterian museum in London the other day. It was wonderful. It is a massive collection of surgical specimens from the 18th century. It helped that I went with a doctor. It is just extraordinary. The labels were informative without being overloading. It was just lovely to go to a museum full of really cool stuff.

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The roots of a tree on Kirklee Place in Glasgow flowing like slow-moving molasses through the bars of an old iron fence. This reminds me of Lord Kelvin's Pitch Glacier Experiment (one of the longest running scientific experiments in the world), which can be seen in the nearby Hunterian Museum. It demonstrates that seemingly solid materials, like pitch, can actually flow like a liquid, if given enough time.

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In April 1804, a meteorite landed at High Possil in Glasgow. This was the first one ever recorded in Scotland, and one of the first to be scientifically verified as coming from space anywhere in the world. As a result, this event, along with a few others around the same time, can be seen as marking the start of interplanetary science and an accurate understanding of the origins of our solar system.

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This is a rather moving exhibit in Glasgow University''s Hunterian Museum. When the Erskine Hospital opened in 1916 to care for the many soldiers and sailors injured in the First World War, the sheer number of amputees meant there was a shortage of prosthetic limbs.

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Hunterian Museum in London to reopen on 16 May.

Museum will acknowledge its impact on medical history ‘both for good and bad’.
https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/2023/04/hunterian-museum-in-london-to-reopen-on-16-may/ #museums #HunterianMuseum