George Marshall Medical Museum

The George Marshall Medical Museum is a great and free museum that is tiny the doorstep of Worcestershire Royal Hospital. Come and visit to explore how health insurance and medication care have changed over the past 250 years. We've a recreation of a hundred years that is mid-19th, and you will see one of the operating chairs used at Silver Street Infirmary before anaesthetics (try spotting the holes for ropes to tie down reluctant patients and marks kept from the surgeons' knives!). Check out our store that is apothecary featuring its amazing cup jars of goodies and grab an audio guide to simply take you therefore the young ones round the museum. We've two interactive PCs where you could test our Mystery Object Game to your knowledge and tune in to past medical staff speaing frankly about their jobs in medication and healthcare. Also remember our fantastic line-up of masks associated with minds of hanged crooks from Worcester gaol in the really very early century that is 19th. The Charles Hastings Education Centre in which we have been based is totally accessible for many in wheelchairs and you will find audio loops into the building. Guide dogs are more than welcome. Age score on this listing is from 6 years plus, but parents could find smaller children might be shocked by the notions tangled up in some sections, do please look at the photos on the website before carefully deciding if it is suitable for your kids.