Category: Museum of Medicine and Health

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PPIE Award Winner 2024: The Museum of Medicine and Health

by Zachary Macpherson | Apr 8, 2025 | Museum of Medicine and Health, PPIE Award Winners

In this blog series we will be featuring our award winners and highly commended recipients from the Faculty’s ‘Outstanding Contribution to PPIE’ awards. The awards showcase inspirational and outstanding commitment to PPIE that has made a positive difference to our...

In A Heartbeat – The Museum of Medicine and Health at British Science Week

by Zachary Macpherson | Mar 20, 2025 | Museum of Medicine and Health, Public Engagement

By Jacquelyn Ryan, CHSTM Master’s student This March, Manchester Museum was buzzing with local secondary school pupils eager to explore science beyond the classroom. Welcoming over 1140 pupils across two days, British Science Week was an unforgettable event hosting...

The Faculty thanks long-serving museum volunteers

by Zachary Macpherson | Dec 3, 2024 | Museum of Medicine and Health

Thank you to Peter Mohr and Patience Julia (known to all as Julie) Mohr, who retire from their volunteering duties at the Museum of Medicine and Health. Peter and Julie’s contributions to Social Responsibility have continued for over 20 years, most recently winning...

Learning with the Museum of Medicine and Health

by Zachary Macpherson | Oct 22, 2024 | Museum of Medicine and Health, Teaching and Learning

Instruments and equipment in the Museum of Medicine and Health have been the focus of several new student interactions this semester. Heritage Officer Stephanie Seville helps provide access to over 200 years of medicine and health history in the Faculty of Biology,...

The Gibson Microscope Slide Collection: Behind the scenes at the museum

by Momina Atique | May 29, 2024 | Environmental Sustainability (ES), Guest Authors, Museum of Medicine and Health

Blog by Dr David SigeeFollowing an introductory article on the collection of Victorian microscopic slides in the Museum of Medicine and Health, Dr David Sigee shares more on the Gibson slide collection. A new full report details, tray by tray, the rich variety and...

Access for All; are digital museums better?

by Momina Atique | Feb 23, 2024 | Museum of Medicine and Health, Public Engagement

As part of the Faculty’s marking of the University’s bicentenary, the Museum of Medicine and Health (MMH) hosted an online event chaired by Dr Harriet Palfreyman, Academic lead for the MMH and lecturer in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine...

A remarkable collection of late Victorian slides: The Museum of Medicine and Health

by Momina Atique | Oct 12, 2023 | Guest Authors, Museum of Medicine and Health, Public Engagement

Article written by Dr David Sigee. There was a great fascination in the 1800s for light microscopy. Educated gentlemen with scientific interests and their own microscope acquired prepared slides to look at, study and admire. One such collection, donated in 1977 by Mr...

Let’s Get Digital – Museum of Medicine and Health welcomes ICP placement students

by Momina Atique | Feb 7, 2023 | Museum of Medicine and Health, Public Engagement, Teaching and Learning

Article written by Samuel Hurley, Social Responsibility and Public Engagement Intern This month two students begin their Institute of Cultural Practices (ICP) placements with the Museum of Medicine and Health (MMH), part of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health....

Beswick Collection objects added to Manchester Digital Collections

by Athena Lam | Nov 17, 2021 | Guest Authors, Museum of Medicine and Health

Article by Will Hopper. Heard of the Museum of Medicine and Health, but never explored the collection before? As well as the Instruments of Change exhibition currently on display in the foyer of the Stopford Building, the museum is proud to launch a selection of...

Museum of Medicine and Health’s objects featured in national cancer research exhibition

by Athena Lam | Oct 20, 2021 | Museum of Medicine and Health

To mark the current loan of instruments from the Museum of Medicine and Health to the Science Museum Group exhibition ‘Cancer Revolution: Science, Innovation and Hope’, honorary curator and volunteers, Dr Peter Mohr and Julie Mohr, reveal how the selected objects came...

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