Science & Engineering

The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.

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Bethlem Museum of the Mind

Mental illness told through the archives and art of Bethlem hospital.

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Photo by Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Four centuries of the institution that gave English the word bedlam, including Cibber's statues of Raving and Melancholy Madness that once stood over its gates. Strong on art by patients — Richard Dadd, Louis Wain. Free, and a long way out.

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Orchard Way, Eden Park, BR3 3BY
Nearest station
West Wickham · 13 min walk

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