Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Hunterian Museum

Header image for Hunterian Museum
 

About Hunterian Museum

A medical museum that owes its origins to a collection started by the surgeon John Hunter in the 1750s.

See over 2,000 anatomical preparations from Hunter's original collection, alongside instruments, equipment, models, paintings and archive material, which trace the history of surgery from ancient times to the latest robot-assisted operations. The Museum includes England's largest public display of human anatomy.

Address

Hunterian Museum,
38-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields,
London,
WC2A 3PE


Ticket prices

The museum is free to visit.

Prices last checked May 2023.

Link to Hunterian Museum's website


Opening Hours

The Museum is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 5pm, with the last entry at 4:30pm

Opening hours last checked May 2023.


Accessibility

The museum is on the ground floor and all one one level.

There is a ramp at the Lincoln's Inn Fields entrance and a self-operated platform lift at the Portugal Street entrance.

There is an accessible toilet and separate baby changing facilities.

Assistance dogs are welcome.


 

Frequently asked questions

What's the nearest railway station to Hunterian Museum

The nearest station is Holborn Tube Station which is 0.2 miles away.


Hunterian Museum - Latest News

The Hunterian Museum is back and better than ever
The Hunterian Museum is back and better than ever

After a long closure for rebuilding works, the Hunterian Museum of medical anatomy is reopening, and their redisplay is an eye-popping triumph.

London’s Hunterian Museum reopens next month
London’s Hunterian Museum reopens next month

Closed for the past six years, one of London’s more interesting museums will reopen in May as a free to visit medical museum.

London’s Hunterian Museum is to reopen in March
London’s Hunterian Museum is to reopen in March

Good news, as London’s Hunterian Museum, named after the 18th-century surgeon and anatomist, John Hunter, has confirmed that it will reopen in March 2023 following a five-year redevelopment.

Inside the revamped Royal College of Surgeons
Inside the revamped Royal College of Surgeons

A grand classical-looking building facing onto Lincolns Inn Fields conceals a totally revamped interior with a huge new floor to ceiling atrium. This is the Royal College of Surgeons headquarters which hasn’t been revamped but entirely rebuilt behind its stone facade.

Exhibition looks at the Victorian anti-vaccination protests
Exhibition looks at the Victorian anti-vaccination protests

Vaccination has long been dogged by controversy, and an exhibition seeks to shine a light on the often overlooked history of early anti-vaccination protests, and the medical harm they caused.

Bloggers Triumphant at the Hunterian Museum
Bloggers Triumphant at the Hunterian Museum

Last night a small gang of London Bloggers strutted their stuff at the wondrous Hunterian Museum after winning its inaugural Museums at Night quiz. Themed around Lost London, the topic of their current exhibition, the quiz was organised by M@

All the Kings men: Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons
All the Kings men: Henry VIII and the Barber Surgeons

I am advised, by such persons who advise me of these things, that a chance to look at a rarely seen painting is on offer this month. I won’t pretend that I am the most cultured sort when it comes

Carnal lectures of the sins of the flesh

While updating the events diary, came across this rather interesting series of spring time lectures from the The Royal College of Surgeons of England – which need pre-booking in advance, so worth highlighting on the blog. The evening lectures brings

The Museum of eww, urgh and yeuk!
The Museum of eww, urgh and yeuk!

Alternatively known as the Hunterian Museum inside the Royal College of Surgeons of England – after John Hunter who collected most of the items on display. John Hunter was a surgeon of some note in the 18th century at a

Home > London events > Hunterian Museum