Curating Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries

Abstract

The curators of Medicine: The Wellcome Galleries reflect on their experiences of creating these significant new displays at the Science Museum in London. After summarising the historical medical displays at this museum, they outline the curatorial concepts behind their respective new galleries to explore the display strategies and processes behind the development of the new exhibits and highlight the significance of some of the objects that visitors can encounter today.

Keywords

• permanent galleries
• history of medicine
• medical humanities
• curation
• museum practice
• participation
• visitor experience
• users
• patients
• practitioners