Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum

Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
St Mary's Hospital
Praed Street
London
Greater London
W2 1NY
England

Website

www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/museumsandarchives/index.htm>.

www.medicalmuseums.org/museums/alex.htm

Education work

musei.educ.uniroma3.it/musei/iniz/incv/tel/gbr.htm

E-mail

Kevin.Brown@imperial.nhs.uk

Telephone

020 7886 6528

Fax

020 7886 6739

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Founded in 1993, the Museum features Fleming's laboratory restored to its condition in 1928 when he discovered penicillin in that very room. The Museum was designated an International Historic Chemical Landmark in 1999 by the American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry. The educational programme of the museum was coinsidered a model for smaller museums in Italy at a conference on museum educatioon held in Rome in 1999. The Museum is located in a grade II listed building within St Mary's Hospital and has been used extensively as a film location.

Venue Type:

Museum

Opening hours

Mon-Thurs 1000-1300
Other times by appointment

Closed: Public holidays and between Christmas and New Year

Admission charges

Adult £2-00
Concession £1-00

General services and facilities

Brochure or leaflet available with directions to museum
Foreign language leaflet or brochure available
Guided tours
Pre-booking service for groups
Shop

Children and families

Events and resources for children and families

Schools services and facilities

Direct teaching services for schools
Member of staff available with responsibility for education
Primary school education service available
Printed/audio-visual information available for schools
Secondary school education service available
Education facilities available

Research and adult learning

Academic publications and resources available
Adult lectures and courses held
Library
Mail order service available
Research facilities for academics
Study facilities

Additional info

Staff will visit schools, colleges, universities and community groups with lectures and presentations on Fleming, the history of penicillin, the history of medicine, hospitals, nursing and microbiology.

Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
St Mary's Hospital
Praed Street
London
Greater London
W2 1NY
England

Website

www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/museumsandarchives/index.htm>.

www.medicalmuseums.org/museums/alex.htm

Education work

musei.educ.uniroma3.it/musei/iniz/incv/tel/gbr.htm

E-mail

Kevin.Brown@imperial.nhs.uk

Telephone

020 7886 6528

Fax

020 7886 6739

Material relating to Alexander Fleming, penicillin, antibiotics, twentieth-century microbiology/bacteriology and St Mary's Hospital.

Collection details

Archives, Medicine, Science and Technology, Social History

Key artists and exhibits

Alexander Fleming
penicillin
antibiotics
microbiology
bacteriology

Collections services

General guide to collections available
Public access available to collections information
Specialist publications on collections available

Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
St Mary's Hospital
Praed Street
London
Greater London
W2 1NY
England

Website

www.imperial.nhs.uk/aboutus/museumsandarchives/index.htm>.

www.medicalmuseums.org/museums/alex.htm

Education work

musei.educ.uniroma3.it/musei/iniz/incv/tel/gbr.htm

E-mail

Kevin.Brown@imperial.nhs.uk

Telephone

020 7886 6528

Fax

020 7886 6739

Resources listed here may include websites, bookable tours and workshops, books, loan boxes and more. You may need to scroll down or click on headers to see them all.

Paper-based and downloads

Alexander Fleming and the development of penicillin

Education pack using original source material (photographs, first hand accounts, facsimiles of manuscripts, tables of data, charts) with worksheets on the discovery and development of penicillin

Creator

Kevin Brown

How to obtain

Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum

Hospitals and nursing 1845-1948, a century of health care at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington

Education pack using original source material from St Mary's Hospital Archives on the hospitals and nursing in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries before the National Health Service.