Queen Mary's Hospital Museum
Small museum in the reception of Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, telling the story of the hospital from its start as a centre for war amputees.
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About the museum
Queen Mary's Hospital in Roehampton began in 1915, when Roehampton House became Britain's first specialist hospital for the rehabilitation of soldiers who had lost limbs in the First World War. After the war about 41,000 survivors had returned without one or more limbs, and the hospital became known for artificial limbs and rehabilitation. Later it served the local community as a district general hospital.
The Archives and Museum Group was founded in 1999 to find, record and secure hospital documents, objects and other material and to make them available to the public. It is now a special interest group of the Friends of Queen Mary's Hospital. A small museum opened in May 2010 in the Bader Reception area on the lower ground floor. A 2012 exhibition covered the hospital's years as a district general hospital from 1960 to 1998, using film, objects, photographs and oral history recordings, and a centenary exhibition in 2015 showed memorabilia and prostheses, archive film and touch screens.
The permanent exhibition today is called Care, Kit & Courage and can be seen in the lower ground floor reception of the Bader Rehabilitation Unit. Online content from the exhibition is available on the archive website.
Highlights
- Care, Kit & Courage: permanent exhibition on the hospital's history
- Objects and prostheses from the hospital's work with amputees
- Archive film and oral history recordings
- Bader reception mural of the Second World War pilot Douglas Bader
Permanent exhibition
- Care, Kit & Courage – The permanent exhibition on the history of Queen Mary's Hospital, from the first rehabilitation of amputee soldiers in 1915 to its later role as a community hospital.
- Founded
- 2010
- Operated by
- Friends of Queen Mary's Hospital (Archives and Museum Group)
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| Good to know | The museum is in the Bader reception area on the lower ground floor of the hospital. Group visits are arranged through the Friends of Queen Mary's Hospital. |
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