A surgical museum with a huge collection of medical artefacts, including the pickled remains of unusual animals and humans - from the 7 feet 8 inch real skeleton of a giant from Ireland, to the digestive organs of exotic animals and pickled genitalia. Intriguing, but not for the fainthearted. It's housed upstairs from the Royal College of Surgeons, and not advertised from the outside, so remains something of a hidden treasure.
Hunterian Museum, The Royal College of Surgeons of England
35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE
Tel: 020 7869 6560, Textphone/Typetalk users: 18001 020 7869 6560
Email: museums@rcseng.ac.uk
Send your feedback or queries to been.there@guardian.co.uk
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