Upcoming Events

September 2025

Doctor Behind the Wire

Date(s): 25 September 2025

Time: 1.15pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/doctor-behind-the-wire-tickets-1389518951589?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us for this bite sized lunch time talk exploring the history of medicine. In 1941, Jack Ennis, Captain and pathologist in the Indian Medical Service, was sent ‘up-country’ in Malaya to work at a remote hospital. As the Japanese invaded, he wrote daily in his small pocket-size diary and recorded the retreat to Singapore, captivity and intern…

Restart A Heart Day

Date(s): 16 September 2025

Time: 11am-4pm

Cost: Included in standard museum entry

We are delighted to be hosting drop-in activities for Restart a Heart Day’, a global initiative to raise awareness and education of CPR and AEDs in the community and takes place every year on 16th October. We will be joined by the BSc Oral Health Sciences staff and students in from Edinburgh University as well as representatives from the British H…

The Human Microbiome

Date(s): 11 September 2025

Time: 2pm

Cost: £3

Age Restrictions: 16+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-human-microbiome-tickets-1372961176839?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join museum research Fellow Professor Ken Donaldson for this exploration of the human microbiome. The Dutchman Antony van Leeuwenhoek was the first person to see microbes, which he saw with his new invention, the microscope, in the late 17th century. At the same time he described “very little animalcules, very prettily a-moving”, in scrapings from…