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Wax model showing nerves
Details: History programme leaflet [pdf]
The Museum’s collection offers a great range of objects and archive material through which to interpret the historical contexts of the development of science and medicine. In particular, facilitated sessions are available to support Schools’ History Project GCSE syllabus course, ‘Medicine through Time’.
Workshops for KEY STAGE 3 |
 Sundial
- Observing the Sun and the first time tellers.
- Modelling sundials.
- Handling session with original instruments.
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 Science & Islam educational event
- Discover Islamic instruments from the collection.
- The influence of Islam on scientific discovery.
- Make a model astrolabe and learn how to use it.
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Workshops for KEY STAGE 4 |
 Surgery kit
Suitable for Schools’ History Project GCSE unit Medicine through Time
- Early developments in surgery and anatomy.
- Looking at historical books and surgical instruments.
- Questioning experimental approaches to medicine.
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 Penicillin culture vessels
- The story of penicillin.
- How social and historical factors affect scientific discovery.
- Antibiotics and x-ray crystallography.
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