Research

 

The George Marshall Medical Museum does not currently have a programme of research on its collections due to time constraints. However, we aim to provide researchers with easy access to our fascinating archive material and rare books collection. Please contact the Curator for more information.

 

Image © Charles Hastings Education Centre

In particular, we welcome research on our oral history collections (medicine and healthcare in Worcestershire, and Powick Lunatic Asylum) and on our written archives which include several volumes of British Medical Association minutes and student lecture notes. Please note that we do not hold any patient medical records, of any age.

 

Click here to be taken to our online medical archive of patients admitted to Powick Lunatic Asylum.

 

Rare books, original archives and local texts

 

We hold historic archives, objects and photographs from a number of local hospitals including Worcester’s Infirmary, Worcester’s Eye Hospital, Malvern Hospital and Powick Lunatic Asylum. Our collection also contains rare books relevant to the local spa towns of Malvern, Droitwich and Tenbury Wells, which highlight the popular, mid-nineteenth century belief in therapeutic powers of the spa waters.

 

We also hold some of the early records of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association (PMSA) which was founded in 1832. The PMSA went on to become the British Medical Association (BMA) in 1856. Sir Charles Hastings was the founder of the BMA, and the education centre in which the George Marshall Medical Museum is located is named after him. Follow this link below to find out more about the BMA: www.bma.org.uk/

 

To find out more about some of our collections please click here.