Email gmmedicalmuseum@gmail.com if you’d like to get involved.

research

Outside the asylum patient research

We have an ongoing research project to add more detail to what is known about some of the people who were admitted to the Worcester City and County Lunatic Asylum (later Powick Hospital), in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Please check out our ‘Outside the Asylum’ page for more information: https://medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-asylum.

collections research

If you would rather help to research objects rather than people, we are hoping to fill up our online ‘collections’ pages with information about some key objects on display. We hope these will provide a wicked online resource for teachers of the history of medicine, and also encourage more people to see more of what we have on display after visiting our webpages. See here for some examples by Volunteer Victoria! https://medicalmuseum.org.uk/objects

EVENTS

The medical museums like to encourage volunteers to get involved in open days and events. This usually involves supervising a 'station' of activities or crafts, with members of the public, or something specific like assisting with photography or giving tours.

COLLECTIONS

The George Marshall Medical Museum has a core team of volunteers who like to get their hands on the collections. Activities could include helping at the annual spring clean, cleaning our book collection, or helping to accession new objects into the collections.

We are actively recruiting for volunteers to assist in the transcription of our fascinating oral histories.

We would like help to research upcoming exhibitions and are currently looking into celebrating the 150th anniversary of St John Ambulance in 2027!

EDUCATION

We look forward to inviting schools and community groups to the museum. Whether you fancy assisting running an existing workshop or helping to create something new and exciting for school aged children, let us know!