Museums and cultural centres collect and preserve various artefacts, photographs, and other textual materials on the history of medicine. Some offer searchable databases of digitized materials while others present selections from their collections in virtual exhibitions.
Below is a sampling of museums dedicated to the history of medicine. For more options in Canada and the United States, see the directories for the Canadian Museums Association and the Museums Database. For a more global perspective, see Worldwide Database of University Museums and Collections and Museums of the World.
North America
- Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. London, Ontario, Canada
- Maude Abbott Medical Museum. Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Mütter Museum. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Museo de la Medicina Maya. San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico.
- Museum of Health Care. Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- National Museum of Civil War Medicine. Frederick, Maryland
- National Museum of Health and Medicine. Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina. Mexico City, Mexico.
- Warren Anatomical Museum. Boston, Massachusetts, United States
South America
Europe
Asia
Africa
Australia
