museum
Llewellyn-Davies Weeks, 1968
2nd Floor, Medical School, Rowland Hill Street, NW3 2PF
Based at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, the UCL Pathology Museum contains nearly 6,000 human pathology specimens relating to the study of disease and the history of medicine. Today, this important collection is used to facilitate teaching, research and public engagement in human health and disease, both at the museum and across University College London.
Belsize Park
Hampstead Heath
24, 46, 268, C11
Please meet at the Royal Free's Rowland Hill Street entrance, NOT the main hospital entrance on Pond Street. The museum is on the 2nd floor.
The museum contains human remains and it is likely that the people represented did not consent for their remains to be retained.
Guided tour
12:00–13:00
Join our museum curator for a tour of University College London's historic medical teaching collection.
How to book
Please create a free visitor account to book your festival tickets.
Guided tour
15:00–16:00
Join our museum curator for a tour of University College London's historic medical teaching collection.
How to book
Please create a free visitor account to book your festival tickets.
Guided tour
12:00–13:00
Join our museum curator for a tour of University College London's historic medical teaching collection.
How to book
Please create a free visitor account to book your festival tickets.
Guided tour
15:00–16:00
Join our museum curator for a tour of University College London's historic medical teaching collection.
How to book
Please create a free visitor account to book your festival tickets.
Guided tour
12:00–13:00
Join our museum curator for a tour of University College London's historic medical teaching collection.
How to book
Please create a free visitor account to book your festival tickets.
Guided tour
15:00–16:00
Join our museum curator for a tour of University College London's historic medical teaching collection.
How to book
Please create a free visitor account to book your festival tickets.
Based at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, the UCL Pathology Museum contains nearly 6,000 human pathology specimens relating to the study of disease and the history of medicine. Today, this important collection is used to facilitate teaching, research and public engagement in human health and disease, both at the museum and across University College London.
Many of our specimens, the majority of which are preserved in fluid, demonstrate common historic diseases like rickets and tuberculosis. Alongside these, the museum contains examples of skeletal material, foreign bodies (things that have been swallowed, inhaled, or inserted), wax models, plaster casts and microscope slides.
Join our museum curator for a tour of this historic medical teaching collection, usually only accessible to students and researchers by appointment, to explore its past, present, and future.
Please be aware that the museum contain human remains and UCL acknowledges it is likely that the people represented did not consent for their remains to be retained.
UCL Museums & Cultural Programmes took over the management of the Pathology Collection from the UCL Medical School in 2009, since then we have worked in collaboration with doctors and University College London academics to develop a unique and embedded medical teaching museum. Today, the collection is made up of specimens from several London teaching hospitals, including University College Hospital, the Middlesex Medical School, The Royal Free Hospital, and the internationally renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.