Aberdeen Maritime Museum
The collection consists of two basic elements: The George Shepherd Pharmaceutical Collection which is largely 19th and 20th centuries glassware/ceramic, some proprietary preparations, equipment and presciption books; The Kenneth A Webster Nursing Collection, mostly 20th century material ranging from uniforms, student notebooks, teaching aids to surgical instruments and theatre equipment.
Dumfries Museum & Camera Obscura
18th, 19th and early 20th century medical and sick room equipment; the story of plague, cholera and public health in the Royal Burgh of Dumfries and the first ever use of ether anaesthetic.
Fetlar Interpretive Centre
A community museum on Shetland, with an award-winning exhibition on the development of antiseptic surgery and the work of Sir William Watson Cheyne, Lister’s House Surgeon.
Heriot-Watt University Museum & Archive
The museum holds medicine-related archives and objects relating to teaching and research from the University’s origins in 1821 to today: from farriery and pharmacy to a diamond coated artificial hip joint and innovative medical textiles.
Hunterian Museum
The Hunterian is home to a wide range of collections covering art, humanities and natural sciences. From 2006, a new medical display will celebrate Glasgow’s rich medical heritage, exploring major and lesser-known figures in medicine and showcasing their achievements.
Inverness Museum & Art Gallery
Situated in the centre of this beautiful tourist and market city, the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery explores the natural and human history of Inverness and the Highlands including Highland widlife, archaeology and more recent history, fine and applied art.
Linlithgow Story
The museum, run by the Linlithgow Heritage Trust, has documents relating to the life and work of surgeon David Waldie of Linlithgow (1813-1889), who worked with James Young Simpson on the discovery or chloroform for anaesthesia.
National Museums of Scotland
NMS is Scotland's national museum service, caring for many of Scotland's museum collections of national and international importance. The majority of medical items are to be found in the Royal Museum and the Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street, Edinburgh.
People's Story Museum
Housed in the late 16th century Canongate Tolbooth on Edinburgh's Royal Mile, The People's Story uses oral history, reminiscence and written sources to tell the story of the lives, work and leisure of the ordinary people of Edinbugh, from the late 18th century to the present day.
Queensferry Museum
Situated in the historic former royal burgh of Queensferry, on the south bank of the Forth, the museum commands magnificent views of the two great bridges spanning the Forth. Its collections trace the history of the people of Queensferry and Dalmeny, and include several items relating to pharmacy.
Simpson House
Simpson House’s Discovery Room is the actual room where Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform. The room charts Simpson’s life through a display and video. The room holds exhibits including the decanter that Simpson passed round his assembled guests asking them to “inhale”.
Sir Walter Scott's Courtroom, Selkirk
Built in 1803 as the Sheriff Court, this is where Sir Walter Scott dispensed justice to the people of Selkirkshire. There are permanent displays of items relating to Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg and Mungo Park, who were all contemporaries.
St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum
The Trust maintains a local social history collection, which includes most of the contents of a local dentist practice and a local chemist shop.
St Ronan's Wells Visitor Centre
This historic well was patronised by Burns and Scott and was one of the earliest spas developed in Scotland. The story of the health-giving springs and the legends associated with them is told through documents, photographs and objects.
Surgeons' Hall Museum, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Located in a magnificent Playfair building dating from 1832, the Pathology Museum (on the upper floor of Surgeons' Hall) has one of the largest collections of pathological anatomy in the United Kingdom and provides valuable material for the study of human disease.
Tayside Medical History Museum
Jointly managed by the NHS and the University of Dundee Museum Services, the Medical History Museum includes a wide range of material representing the history of medicine in Tayside and a general history of medicine throughout Scotland.
University of Aberdeen, Anatomy Museum
Historical and modern specimens covering all aspects of human anatomy, including: museum pots of human prosected specimens showing the structural organisation of the body; historical wax models; modern plastic models; osteological material; anti grave-robbing devices from 19th century NE Scotland.
University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum
The museum holds classical and late 19th/early 20th century surgical instruments, as well as collections by medics and people with medical training, including archaeological human remains from NE Scotland & Orkney, ehtnographic items relating to health and healing from around the world, and portraits.
University of Aberdeen, Pathology & Forensic Medicine Collection
Specimens of human organs, demonstrating disease and trauma in NE Scotland. Some disease conditions represented are no longer prevalent. Also wax models and some instruments. Artefacts relating to crimes of note in Aberdeen in middle third of 20th century.
University of Aberdeen, Zoology Museum
The Zoology Museum has the only large, international collection of zoological specimens in the north of Scotland, including the University of Aberdeen's collection of comparative anatomy. The collection is worldwide in scope, with 75,000 specimens including skeletons, and a cod skull once in the possession of Robert Knox.
University of Dundee Museum Services
University Collections of art, science and natural history. The university has medical collections covering anatomy, pathology, biology and physiology and has joint responsibility for the Tayside Medical History Museum.
University of Edinburgh, Anatomy Resource Centre
Historical examples of human and zoological anatomy, potted specimens used for the teaching of anatomy, dissections, microtomes and microcscopes, and featuring iconic items such as William Burke's skeleton.
University of Glasgow, Anatomy Museum
The Anatomy Museum is a Departmental Museum housing William Hunter’s 18th century anatomical collection and other teaching collections. Spirit-preserved tissues, bones, anatomical casts and models and plastinated preparations explain and illustrate human anatomy.
University of St Andrews, Museum Collections Unit
The University’s science collections include items relating to the teaching of physics and astronomy, chemistry, psychology, anatomy and pathology, and the Bell Pettigrew Museum collection of Natural History.
Writers' Museum
Material relating to Scottish writers – in particular, significant collections of portraits, manuscripts, books, memorabilia relating to Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, including Burns’ writing desk, Scott’s dining table, and Stevenson’s portable printing press.
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