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Tuesday to Saturday: 10am – 5pm

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Museum gallery. Around the gallery are free standing white plinths and display cases. Six individuals are spaced throughout the gallery looking at the displays.

Hunterian Museum Galleries

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Modern Surgery

Dynamic and innovative, modern surgery continues to respond to the challenges of a complex world. This room looks at scientific advances from 1914 to 2023, and how they have transformed the way we understand and operate on the human body. The displays also explore what key developments and challenges the future may bring.

A surgical device consisting of yellow plastic, white tubing and metal valves

Akutsu artificial heart, 1981

Museum gallery with light grey walls. In the foreground there is a glass museum case, which sits in front of a painting of a surgical scene. Through a doorway there is a large scale projection of an operating room.

Museum gallery. Around the gallery are free standing white plinths and display cases.