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Royal London Hospital Museum
About Royal London Hospital Museum
UPDATE - the Museum is currently closed and there's no indication of when it will reopen
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The museum covers the history of the hospital since its foundation in 1740 and the wider history of medicine in the East End.
It includes works of art, surgical instruments, medical and nursing equipment, uniforms, medals, documents and books.
There is a forensic medicine section which includes original material on Jack the Ripper, Dr Crippen and the Christie murders. There are also displays on Joseph Merrick (the 'Elephant Man') and former Hospital nurse Edith Cavell.
The museum is located in the crypt of a 19th-century church behind the hospital.
Address
Royal London Hospital Museum,
Newark Street,
London,
E1 2AA
One of East London’s earliest hospitals is currently being gutted, and there’s been a chance to see inside as they work to turn it into Tower Hamlet’s new Town Hall.
There is a tale that is often repeated late at night in spooky surroundings that there was once a Dead Body Train that ran through a special tunnel and collected the dead from the Royal London Hospital and took them no one knows where.
For medical reasons, I am required to visit a hospital for prodding and poking every few months, and the clinic I visit was recently moved from Barts in the City to the Royal London Hospital in the distinctly non-regal Whitechapel.…
