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National Lottery Heritage Grant Awarded to Thackray Museum
Thackray Museum of Medicine announces today that The National Lottery Heritage Fund has generously awarded it a grant of...
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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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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 wins VisitEngland Gold
We're honoured to announce that we've been recognised with a Visitor Attraction Accolade Gold Award!
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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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Exhibition Archive: On The Bench
We unveiled our new exhibition 'On The Bench', an exciting exploration of the relationship between sports, science, and injury, in July 2023.
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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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Pride – Ki’s Story
This Pride, we are looking to raise the voices of the LGBTQIA+ community. This is Ki's story...
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Cataloguing the Thackray Museum Archive (Part Three)
From sandals to knee implants, our resident Project Archivist, Robert Curphey is back with another update!
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Volunteer View: Florence’s Birthday
Ross Horsley is back to tell us a bit about how Thackray celebrated the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth!
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Thackray wins special award at European Museum of the Year 2023
Thackray receives a special commendation at the prestigious awards ceremony in Barcelona on Saturday May 6th 2023.
