# What’s on

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Explore our current exhibitions.

## Every level has exhibits to explore

Explore our exhibits across 3 floors in the Mayne Medical School Building, Herston.

To celebrate the launch of our publication *50 Treasures: a collection of objects from the Marks-Hirschfeld Museum of Medical History*, we’re exhibiting many of the wonderful objects featured in the book, including Queensland’s first X-ray machine, a turn of the century embalming pump and a 130cm long rigid gastroscope.

Buy your copy of the book then come to visit your favourite objects!

[Buy the book](https://payments.uq.edu.au/UQPFMD101/menu?UDS_ACTION=SPD&UDS_ACTION_DATA=2222)

[Book a tour](https://survey.app.uq.edu.au/book-a-museum-tour)

## Level 4

- The history of electrocardiography: how a toy train and a dog named Jimmy contributed to development of medicine’s most important tool of cardiac diagnosis.
- Queensland’s first x-ray machine and the perils of radiation
- Stalwart of anaesthetics and mid-century beauty – The Boyle-type anaesthetic machine
- The post-war rise of audiology

## Level 3

- A history of microscopes
- Inside a 100-year-old operating theatre cabinet
- Things to poke in your eye: tiny gems from our ophthalmological collection
- Dr Stuart Patterson’s infant respirator
- Explosive ether: a look at anaesthetics most popular agent
- The music of lithotomy
- Coming soon – Ventilators and ethics

## Level 2

- Tonsillectomy tools
- The troubling history of electroconvulsive therapy
- Pharmaceuticals on show
- Meet Ernest Sanford Jackson
- Braces, splints and plaster: precursors to orthopaedics

## Other displays

We also have several displays at the [Integrated Pathology Learning Centre](https://biomedical-sciences.uq.edu.au/facilities/integrated-pathology-learning-centre).