Thackray Museum of Medicine

Thackray Museum of Medicine is the UKs largest independant museum that focuses on the history of medicine. They offer a wide variety of unique permanent exhibitions ranging from the Victorian Era of Leeds to the impact medicine had in war. The exhitibtions stretch across two floors. Additionally, the Museum features a café that serves healthy and locally sourced foods ranging from sandwiches and pastries to sweet treats and coffee.

Some of the exhitibitions include:

• Disease street – This exhitibtion focuses on the poor health conditions of Victorian leeds, allowing you to smell see and hear what it was like for those struggling.
• Victorian Operating Theatre and Mortuary – Focuses on how surgeries were performed in an era where anaesthetics hadn’t been invented yet. Furthermore, it showcases how the dead have helped in living longer in the modern world.
• Making us well, outside in – Showcases how public health improved over time and the different problems that were solve along the way.
• Disease Detectives – Focuses on microbes and the ground breaking discoveries made using them that revolutionised medicine forever.

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Opening Times

The Museum are open daily: 10am–4pm (last admission 3.15pm).
It could take up to around 2 hours minimum to get a full tour of the museum.
Thackray Café is open from 9.30am – 3.30pm and doesn’t require a museum ticket to enter.

Accessibility

The Museum is fully wheelchair and buggy accessible with entry being free for essential companions such as carers.

Assistance dogs are also welcome with a bowl of water being able to be provided.

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