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Festive Opening Hours Announcement
If you'd like to explore medicine over the festive period, here are our opening hours...
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Dressing Disability Comes to Life
Strike a pose! Our latest display is all about self-expression, identity and representation.
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Phoenix Dance Theatre Takes Over Thackray Museum for Free Harehills Performance
Find dance in the most surprising places! On 11th November, this will be the Thackray Museum like you’ve never seen it before.
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Stay Curious, Keep Collecting: The Legacy of Paul Thackray (1939-2023)
Our late founder Paul Thackray donated thousands of items to our 75,000+ collection of medical supplies. What can we learn from some of these objects?
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Cataloguing the Thackray Museum of Medicine Archive: Part Four
Our Project Archivist Robert Curphey is back with his latest update!
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Thackray Museum of Medicine wins VisitEngland Gold
We're honoured to announce that we've been recognised with a Visitor Attraction Accolade Gold Award!
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Poisons and Cures: Strychnine and the Murder of John Cook
We have quite the range of drugs, drug bottles and poisons in our collection. Today we're going to be talking about strychnine.
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Surgeon Cyclists: 500-mile Transplant Tour stops at Thackray Museum
To celebrate Organ Donor Week 2023, a group of very brave (and very cold) surgeons stopped off here on their 500 mile cycle ride!
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On The Bench – Launched
We recently unveiled our brand new exhibition 'On The Bench', an exciting exploration of the relationship between sports, science, and injury.
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Let’s Get Physio
Did you realise we're born without kneecaps? Physiotherapist Andy Baker gave us some insightful facts about ways we can treat and prevent sports injuries.
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Must-see Museums
From tank museums to pencil collections, we asked Thackray staff what their favourite museums are!
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NHS Birthday Weekend
The National Health Service turned 75 this July! Full of costumes, cakes and fun, here's how we chose to celebrate..
