George Eliot Hospital Museum

George Eliot NHS Hospital Trust Museum
4th Floor Maternity Hospital
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
College Street
Nuneaton
Warwickshire
CV10 7DJ
England

Website

www.geh.nhs.uk/departments/Depts/Museum/home.htm

E-mail

ann.cahill@geh.nhs.uk

Telephone

0870 855 2540

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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Originally set up 25 years ago by Dr Jennifer Burton as a teaching aid, it has evolved into one of the very few NHS owned museums in the country. Our Mission Statement: to develop, preserve and display a collection of artefacts and archives that relate to the development of healthcare. To inform healthcare staff of the importance of their medical heritage. Encourage greater public awareness of medical history in order to enable individuals to understand and take control of their own health. To ensure that the collection is used both in formal education and as a resource for lifelong learning.

Venue Type:

Museum

 Opening hours

11am - 3pm every Monday except Bank Holidays.
At other times and for group visits please ring on 024 76865540. Visits from schools are welcome. Workshops relating to the National Curriculum can be arranged with teachers. Guided Tours are available for pre-booked groups. Catering can also be arranged when the tea bar is closed.

 General services and facilities
  • Guided tours
  • Refreshments
 Disability access
  • Toilets for disabled
  • Wheelchair access to all public areas
 Research and adult learning
  • Research facilities for academics

Additional info

The museum is fully accessible with disabled parking and toilets.

George Eliot NHS Hospital Trust Museum
4th Floor Maternity Hospital
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
College Street
Nuneaton
Warwickshire
CV10 7DJ
England

Website

www.geh.nhs.uk/departments/Depts/Museum/home.htm

E-mail

ann.cahill@geh.nhs.uk

Telephone

0870 855 2540

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collection details

Archives, Medicine

Key artists and exhibits

  • An Iron Lung used in the Polio Epidemics of the 1950s, the predecessor of today's life support machines.
  • Exercise bike from the 1940s, used to aid in the rebuilding of a patient's muscles after a long period of inactivity.
  • Anaesthesiology: An early piece of equipment used by an anaesthetist to place a patient into a state ready for operation, where they are unable to feel any pain whilst the surgeon begins the operation at hand.
  • Wheelchair from the 1920s-40s, used to aid in patient mobility.
  • A 19th century medicine chest with a set of spoons and measures.
  • Objects from the Central Hospital, Warwick, relating to mental illness.
  • A collection of early X-Ray machines, one of which dates to the First World War.
  • Spinal carriage from the 1920s-40s, used to help prevent further damage to a patient's spine when being moved around the hospital.
  • Various Apparatus: Includes a tonsil guillotine used when tonsils were removed.

George Eliot NHS Hospital Trust Museum
4th Floor Maternity Hospital
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
College Street
Nuneaton
Warwickshire
CV10 7DJ
England

Website

www.geh.nhs.uk/departments/Depts/Museum/home.htm

E-mail

ann.cahill@geh.nhs.uk

Telephone

0870 855 2540

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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