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Tuesday to Saturday: 10am – 5pm

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Museum gallery, with pale blue walls. Down the left side there are oil paintings, and a display case of specimens including an animal skull. Along the back is another display case with a grandfather clock, paintings, and other artefacts. Two individuals are looking at the display cases.
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John Hunter – Leicester Square

In 1783 John and his family moved to a new home in the center of London. The property combined two houses: 28 Leicester Square and 13 Castle Street. The front was a fashionable town house, the back Hunter’s work rooms and anatomy school. The displays in this room explore the differences between these spaces, and how Hunter acquired specimens.
Circular gold frame containing a coiled, metallic structure arranged in a spiral

Boar’s epididymis (tube which stores and transports sperm) injected with mercury and framed for display, prepared by John Hunter, 1760–93

Museum gallery, with pale blue walls. Down the left side there are two oil paintings, and the model of a house. Two individals are listening to headsets associated with the house. At the end oil paintinigs of animals are hung. On the right a display case is filled with specimens in glass jars.

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