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Blood and Guts walking tours

February 2023

Blood and Guts: The Twists and Turns of Edinburgh's Medical History walking tour

Date(s): 18 February 2023

Time: 2pm

Cost: £9.95-£17.95

Age Restrictions: 10+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blood-and-guts-the-twists-and-turns-of-edinburghs-medical-history-tickets-476352602457?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

"Blood and Guts walking tour was amazing! We loved the tour guide, all the history and stories we heard. It was also awesome to walk around the museum afterwards.” ***** Join Surgeons Hall Museums on their 5* walking tour through Edinburgh’s old town. We will take you through the highs and lows of Edinburgh’s world renowned medical history. Dis…

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Heart Dissection Workshop For Adults

Date(s): 16 February 2023

Time: 6.30pm

Cost: £10.50-£13.50

Age Restrictions: 18+

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heart-dissection-workshop-for-adults-tickets-476422050177

This workshop is open to all over 18, and you don't need prior knowledge of medicine to try your hand at dissection. This workshop takes a hands-on look at the structure and function of the mammalian heart. Using a pig heart, participants will dissect out the path of the blood revealing the chambers and their associated vessels and valves. We will…

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Marshmallow Challenge: Drop-in Session

Date(s): 15 February 2023

Time: 1.30pm-3.30pm

Cost: Included in museum admission

Age Restrictions: 8+

What is the tallest tower you can build using spaghetti, tape and one marshmallow?  Come along to our drop-in session and learn about the skeleton.  Get hands-on Investigating balance with our fun marshmallow challenge.

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Lunch Time Talks: Women in Medical Art

Date(s): 13 February 2023

Time: 1.15pm

Cost: £3

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lunch-time-talk-women-in-medical-art-tickets-483721613367

Come in from the cold this winter and join Surgeons Hall Museums for our new series of bite sized lunch time talks. In this lunch time talk Surgeons Hall Museums Project Assistant Danielle Dray will discuss a brief history of medical illustration, its changing purpose, and the women who led the way in professionalising medical art. This talk wi…

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Scottish Womens’ Hospital in France in WWI - medical role models & pioneers

Date(s): 13 February 2023

Time: 5.30pm

Cost: £3

Booking Link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-womens-hospital-in-france-in-wwi-medical-role-models-pioneers-tickets-522514975357

Join us Monday February 13th at 5.30 pm for our 2023 Surgeons’ Hall Library Lecture, which will be presented this year by BBC Health Editor Hugh Pym. Hugh’s great-aunt, obstetrician, gynaecologist and surgeon Frances Ivens CBE, was the first woman appointed to a hospital consultant post in Liverpool. Shortly after war commenced in 1914, Dr Elsie I…

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