Photography: Norah Alghafis
Robin Brook Centre East Wing
Barts Pathology Museum houses over 4,000 medical specimens on display over 3 mezzanine levels of the Victorian museum. The museum holds a further 1000 specimens in store along with another 800 that are dedicated to anatomy teaching.
When The London Hospital Medical College and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College merged in 1995, their collections were merged and moved to this site, where they remain today. It is one of the largest collections of human pathological specimens in the country.
As teaching for medical colleges changed after World War 2, the demand for pathological specimens to study anatomy and pathology declined. By the late 1990's this demand was practically non-existent, and the collection was left untouched for several years.
Grant funding was provided by The Medical College of Saint Bartholomew's Hospital Trustees, a registered charity that promotes and advances medical and dental education and research at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, to renovate the collection in 2010. After this conversion, the collection opened to more public engagement and has since become very popular.
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About (2021) Available at: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/pathologymuseum/about/ (Accessed: 15/10/23)
The information page contains all the information that can be found on the virtual tour in one, easy to navigate, page.
The people page shows all the key figures mentioned throughout the tour, whose revolutionary work in their respective fields still assist in research today.
The stories page shows a walk through of how both the medical colleges were founded, as well as how they merged to become what we know today.
The community page celebrates the hard work and selflessness of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry community, and how this has benefited the local community.