Health and Medicine Museums

Health & Medicine Museums (HMM) Special Interest Group

Health and Medicine Museums is a special interest group for people interested in preserving the artefacts of health and medicine.HMM provides:

• a network of contacts
• a forum for ideas
• mutual support and assistance

Committees: HMM has a national committee with representatives from different states of Australia. There are also state chapters, each with its own chapter committee, in New South Wales and Victoria.

Members: Our participating organisations range across small health and medicine museums archives and historical collections local history museums large state museums nursing, medical and other health-related associations institutions and companies with historical collections. Our individual members include volunteer custodians of collections, professional curators and archivists, and many other people interested in the history and heritage of health and medicine

Publications: Exhibiting Human Remains
By popular demand papers from HMM's May 2001 seminar are available on line as a .pdf document.
Featuring thoughtful and revealing papers by eight invited speakers, topics covered include: the ethics of exhibiting human remains, death and violence; WWI pathology specimens; school excursions; human remains in art; and repatriation of Indigenous skeletal remains.

Discussion List: Members and subscribers can exchange information, find answers to tricky questions about their collections, and publicize their museum's events and publications through the HMM-discuss email discussion list. Subscribers privacy is protected and the list is moderated.

PLEASE NOTE: The Health and Medicine Museums SIG is unfortunately currently IN RECESS and new memberships suspended.

Contact: Judith Cornell AM
57 Queen Victoria Street
Bexley NSW 2207
Tel: 02 9587 2834 
Fax: 03 9587 2834 
E-mail: cornell@netspace.net.au


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