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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Hunterian Museum

Surgical anatomy in glass jars, unflinching and free.

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John Hunter's eighteenth-century collection of specimens, reopened in 2023 at the Royal College of Surgeons. The redisplay removed the skeleton of Charles Byrne, who had asked not to be put on show. Not for everyone, and there is no attempt to soften it.

Where
35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3PE
Nearest station
Holborn · 4 min walk

Hours

MondayClosed
Tuesday10:00 – 17:00
Wednesday10:00 – 17:00
Thursday10:00 – 17:00
Friday10:00 – 17:00
Saturday10:00 – 17:00
SundayClosed

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