Guide to Collections Relating to the History of Artificial Internal Organs

museums, archives and libraries

Bakken Library and Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum

Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum

DeWitt Stetten Jr. Museum of Medical Research

Dittrick Medical History Center

Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences

International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation

International Center for Medical Technologies

International Museum of Surgical Science

John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center

Mayo Foundation Archives, Mayo Clinic

Medical History Museum of the University of Copenhagen

Medical History Museum of the University of Zurich

Medicinhistoriska Museet

Minnesota Historical Society

Museu Nacional de Historia da Medicina

Museum Boerhaave

Museum of Health Care at Kingston

Mutter Museum

National Library of Medicine

National Museum of American History

National Museum of Health and Medicine

Science Museum of London

Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum, Library and Archives

Thackray Museum

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Medical Museum

University of Utah, Marriott Library, Special Collections

University of Washington

Vanderbilt University

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

repository The Medical History Museum of the University of Zurich
 
address Ramistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland
Telephone + 41 1 634 20 71
Fax Number + 41 1 634 36 90
Website
 
Contact Person Dr. B. Ruttimann, Director
email
 
Access and Services The museum is open Tuesday-Friday, 13:00-18:00; Saturday-Sunday, 11:00-17:00; closed on Monday.
 
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Collections

title/date The Medical History Museum of the University of Zurich Collections, predominantly 18th to 20th centuries.
 
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Biographical Note
 
Collection Description From witch doctor to modern medicine: instruments and documents. History of surgery, the major illnesses and their treatment, exhibition rooms: chemist ca. 1750, children's ward ca. 1830, doctor's practice ca. 1890, laboratory of 1920 and 1990, gallery of famous Zurich doctors.
 
Finding Aid
 
Restrictions
 
Related Material Research library, approximately 100,000 titles, 15-20th centuries.

Last reviewed: 27 August 2008
Last updated: 02 March 2007
First published: 01 March 2002
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