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Tuesday to Saturday: 10am – 5pm

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Museum gallery. A large projection of a modern operation takes up the majority of a wall. In front of it there is a much smaller screen showing a seated woman in a suit. A visitor is watching the screen. Also on display is a single small round display case containing a specimen.
Hunterian Museum Galleries

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Transforming Lives

The final room looks at personal experiences of surgery, from both the patients’ and the surgeons’ perspectives. It tells of life saving and life enhancing surgery, and the forging of unique personal and professional bonds.
An operating room, with patient - covered in blue surgical drapes - in the centre, with two seated surgeons working on their ankle. In the background there are several screens showing X-Rays on an ankle. In the foreground there is a table covered with a blue drape.

The Operation Room, 2022

Close up photograph of a specimen on display in the Hunterian Museum. The specimen, a human heart, is suspended in fluid in a rectagular perspex specimen pot. The specimen in displayed in a circular display case, and lit by two lights.

Jennifer Sutton's native heart, removed during her heart transplant, 2007

On display in Transforming Lives