Over four days from the 5th – 8th September 2019 we’ll be getting NYC excited about medicine through a diverse program of experiences, exhibitions, talks and activities. From behind the scenes tours of hospitals and specifically curated exhibitions, to talks from world experts and hands-on technology demonstrations – there’s something for all ages and interests.
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Nov21-2019
Garvan Institute of Medical Research Tour
This is a rare chance for an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. It’s your opportunity to find out the latest in the revolutionary world of medical research.
Garvan Institute
May9-2019
Join a guided tour through 500 years of women’s health care
Comprising artefacts and instruments in the fields of obstetrics, midwifery, surgery and gynaecology, and spanning over 500 years, the RCOG Museum is unique in the UK with its focus on women’s health care. Join the curator and archivist on a tour of the collection.
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
May9-2019
Get hands-on with the Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Surgeons and British Dental Association
The Anaesthesia Heritage Centre is hosting a day of hands-on workshops for GCSE school groups interested in careers in medicine and healthcare in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons and the British Dental Association.
Anaesthesia Heritage Centre
Nov21-2019
Immerse yourself in a by-gone era of medicine at the Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum
Step back in history at the Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum to discover over 150 years of medical science and hospital care in Parramatta
Brislington Medical and Nursing Museum
Nov21-2019
Behind the Scenes: Conservation Lab Tour
Get an insight into the world of conservation at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, with a rare opportunity to learn how the museum conservators practice the subtle science and exacting art of stabilizing objects, so that they last for another hundred years.
Powerhouse Museum
Nov21-2019
Learn about some of Australia’s biggest killers at the Museum of Human Disease
Visit the Museum of Human Disease at the University of New South Wales - Australia's only publicly accessible medical pathology collection.
Museum of Human Disease
May9-2019
Learn the story of Alexander Fleming’s discovery of penicillin
Take a journey back in time to the days when there were no antibiotics to fight often lethal bacteria and then follow in the footsteps of Alexander Fleming on his road to the discovery that was to revolutionize medicine and affect the lives of every one of us.
Alexander Fleming Museum
May9-2019
View the highlights of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum and Library
Get a unique insight into the history of British pharmacy with this guided tour of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum. Led by museum staff you'll see artefacts and hear pharmaceutical progress from the 1400s up to the present day.
Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum and Library
May9-2019
Join a special behind-the-scenes tour of the British Red Cross Museum and Archives
The British Red Cross museum and archive collections explore the entire history of the organisation’s humanitarian and medical work from 1870 to the present. They are currently only accessible to the public via special ‘behind-the-scenes’ tours of the collections store.
British Red Cross Museum
May9-2019
Learn about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden
Spend Thursday learning about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Tucked away beside the Thames, Chelsea Physic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in London and houses around 5,000 different medicinal, herbal, edible, and useful plants.
Chelsea Physic Garden
May10-2019
Catch Your Breath Exhibition and Tour
Through objects, visual, sound, interactive materials and event, this exhibition and tour will tell the story of how our relationship with and understanding of the breath has developed over time, from ancient philosophers who equated breath with life itself to the latest advances in medicine.
Royal College of Physicians
Nov22-2019
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Museum and Walking Tour
Join museum manager Scott Andrews for a tour of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Museum followed by a guided history walk around the external grounds of the hospital
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Museum
Nov22-2019
Life and Death in the Museum Tour
Visit the Museums Discovery Centres deep collection store and explore objects that have impacted on the life and death of people around the world. Delve into life and death in art, design, technology, science, mythology and above all, stories of the human experience.
Museums Discovery Centre
Nov22-2019
Medical Highlights of the MAAS collection
Explore the extraordinary wonderland of the Museum’s underground collection store. Join Curators, Tilly Boleyn and Damian McDonald, on this entertaining small-group tour of treasures in the Museum’s health and medicine collection.
Powerhouse Museum
Nov22-2019
Learn about some of Australia’s biggest killers at the Museum of Human Disease
Visit the Museum of Human Disease at the University of New South Wales - Australia's only publicly accessible medical pathology collection.
Museum of Human Disease
May10-2019
Learn about 900 years of medical history at St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Visit the St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum and join a walking tour to learn about Britain's oldest hospital still providing medical services on the site on which it was originally built in 1123.
St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum
May10-2019
A Voice for Nursing: Tour London’s Nursing History
Take a behind-the-scenes guided tour around the 1920s College of Nursing, and find out about the century of women (and some men) who shaped the profession in the UK.
Royal College of Nursing
May10-2019
Join a curator led guided tour of the British Optical Association Museum
Join this curator-led guided tour of the British Optical Association Museum - the oldest optical museum in the world - and get the chance to hear about some of the twenty-seven thousand items in this remarkable collection.
British Optical Association Museum
May10-2019
Learn about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden
Spend Friday learning about medicinal plants at the Chelsea Physic Garden. Tucked away beside the Thames, Chelsea Physic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in London and houses around 5,000 different medicinal, herbal, edible, and useful plants.
Chelsea Physic Garden
May10-2019
Be a super hero and join the St Thomas’ fundraising abseil
Grab your harness and abseil 160ft down the front of St Thomas' Hospital. Relish the rush of adrenaline as you descend whilst raising vital funds for Guy's, St Thomas’ and Evelina London Children's Hospital.
St Thomas' Hospital
May11-2019
New Scientist presents ‘Instant Expert: Mysteries of the Mind’
Join six experts working at the forefront of neuroscience, genetics and psychiatry at this New Scientist event and discover why this is the most exciting time in the history of brain science.
British Library
Mar28-2020
Growing healthy: Get creative with a free all-ages animation workshop on medicinal plants
Join us for an afternoon of animation fun as we celebrate the healing power of medicinal plants. We'll record stories and explore an array of analog techniques and digital technologies including claymation, cutouts, stop motion and drawing on film. No experience necessary!
Echo Park Film Center
Nov23-2019
SPASM Museum Guided Tour
Join a guided tour of the Society for Preservation of the Artefacts of Surgery and Medicine (SPASM) Museum - one of the most unique medical museums in Australia - to learn about healthcare in the 19th and 20th centuries.
SPASM Museum
Nov23-2019
Learn about some of Australia’s biggest killers at the Museum of Human Disease
Visit the Museum of Human Disease at the University of New South Wales - Australia's only publicly accessible medical pathology collection.
Museum of Human Disease
May11-2019
See a different side of Soho on a medical walking tour
Join this walking tour and explore the “village” of Soho to hear the impact and influence of the medical men who cared for the many diverse peoples who lived and worked in this fascinating and perhaps little-known part of London.
Walking tour around Soho
May11-2019
Discover Southwark’s Lost Burial Grounds on a guided walking tour
Join this guided walk to learn more the story of Southwark's lost and often long-forgotten graveyards - including the chance to visit the tomb of Thomas Guy who is laid to rest in the crypt of Guy’s Hospital Chapel (not normally open to the public).
Southwark Cathedral
May11-2019
Hear the Barts Chamber Choir perform at St Giles-in-the-Fields
Barts Choir was started by a group of nurses at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in 1965 and is now London’s largest professionally rehearsed choir. Join their auditioned subgroup, Barts Chamber Choir, for a performance celebrating angels through the ages at St Giles-in-the-Fields.
St Giles-in-the-Fields
Mar28-2020
Learn how to save lives with free Stop the Bleed training
Join this free class and learn new skills to assist trauma victims who are severely bleeding prior to EMS arrival. Take the course and become empowered to make a life or death difference when a bleeding emergency occurs. Stop the Bleed. Save a Life!
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Mar28-2020
Join us for a special screening of The Cave and a talk on the role of doctors in the war in Syria
Watch this powerful award-winning documentary that follows physicians in the Syrian war treating besieged civilians inside the subterranean hospital known as The Cave. We'll also be joined for reflections and discussion by Dr. Souheil Habbal of the Syrian American Medical Society.
Echo Park Film Center
Nov24-2019
Investigate infectious disease at the Sydney Quarantine Station
Join us for a day of talks, tours and short films at the unique Quarantine Station on North Head. Investigate the history of infectious disease in Sydney and learn how medical science is keeping us one sneeze away from the next pandemic.
Q Station
May12-2019
Participate in a recreated post mortem on the world’s only semi-synthetic human cadaver
The VIVIT Experience is a nationally award-winning academic experience offering you the chance to participate in a recreated post mortem experience conducted on VIVIT - the world's only semi-synthetic human cadaver.
Brunel University
Mar29-2020
Investigate infectious disease with an afternoon of talks at LA Central Library
Join us for an afternoon of talks at Central Library as we investigate the history of infectious disease in LA and learn how medical science is keeping us one sneeze away from the next pandemic.
Los Angeles Central Library
Nov24-2019
Lucy Osburn-Nightingale Museum Tour
Visit the Lucy Osburn-Nightingale Museum on the site of Australia’s oldest hospital operating continuously since 1788. Join a tour and hear the impact Lucy Osburn had on Australian healthcare and view the collection of medical artefacts and specimens.
Lucy Osburn-Nightingale Museum
Nov24-2019
Learn about some of Australia’s biggest killers at the Museum of Human Disease
Visit the Museum of Human Disease at the University of New South Wales - Australia's only publicly accessible medical pathology collection.
Museum of Human Disease
May12-2019
Join a special tour and talk at the Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability
Join this talk and tour about Dr John Langdon Down and his successors who managed Normansfield from 1868 where a revolutionary and enlightened approach was brought to the care of those with learning disabilities.
Langdon Down Museum
May12-2019
Florence Nightingale’s London – Walking Tour
Join this expert-led walking tour and follow in the footsteps of the 'mother of nursing' and discover the life of Florence Nightingale through the places where she lived and worked. The tour also includes entry to the Florence Nightingale Museum.
Meet outside Dorchester Hotel
May12-2019
Witness a Victorian Surgery Demonstration at the Old Operating Theatre
Join this surgical demonstration presented within the original architecture of the old operating theatre of St. Thomas’s Hospital of 1822. You will experience the talk from the point of view of a 19th century medical student, or maybe even the patient!
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
May12-2019
Celebrate Florence Nightingale’s birthday by learning more about the Lady with the Lamp
On Sunday 12th May celebrate Florence Nightingale's birthday with a visit to the Florence Nightingale Museum to learn more about the life and work of the world’s most famous nurse.
Florence Nightingale Museum
May12-2019
Living Medicine: Digestive Discomforts
Join this fascinating course to better understand how digestion works, from common digestive problems to plant actions, how to identify parsley (and/or cabbage) plant family, food & herb know-how kit, remedy making, grain/pulse dish, digestive decoction, mucilage powder mix, pesto.
Chelsea Physic Garden