Current exhibition: 1 May 2025 - 2 April 2026
Previous exhibitions
Pain, Progress, and Promise
Exploring the emotional journey of medical treatment, from ancient remedies to modern anaesthesia.
Going Viral: Contagion, pestilence and pandemics
This exhibition explored anaesthetists' leading role in improvements to patient care and their ground-breaking discoveries during the epidemics and pandemics of the last 180 years
Comfortably numb: The history of local and regional anaesthesia
The exhibition explored local and regional anaesthesia. Discover the history and development of this technique, and how it’s used for major surgery, during labour, and in some cases for ‘awake’ surgery.