Medical Museums in London

This knockout museum lies in a sleepy corner of London.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

The collection contains over 25,000 items and details the painful dental practices of the past.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Museum dedicated to the UK's first charity for abandoned children, with keepsakes of the mothers who left them behind.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.