Guide to Collections Relating to the History of Artificial Internal Organs

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

Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum, Library and Archives   Aprod utca. 1-3, Budapest I., H-1013, Hungary + 36 1 375 35 33 + 36 1 375 39 36   Maria Vida, PhD, Director General   The museum is open 10:30-18:00, except Mondays and days following national and church holidays. Library is open Monday and Thursday 9:00-19:00 and Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9:00-17:00. Closed on Saturday and Sunday.       Collections Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum Collection, 15th - 20th centuries         The museum collection include archeological, anthropological, medical and surgical instruments, balneological, pharmaceutical, folklore, fine arts (paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphics), applied arts (furniture, textiles, oriental handicrafts), and numismatics.       The library collects medical, surgical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological books and others relating to the history of science and the connection of medicine and life sciences with cultural, intellectual, social and political fields. The archives contains papers and manuscripts of outstanding Hungarian physicians from the 19th-20th century, papers of the Royal Society of Budapest Physicians, the itinerant Congresses of Hungarian Physicians and Naturalists, etc.

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