The Association Européenne des Musées d’Histoire des Sciences Médicales / European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences was established in France in 1984 to facilitate communication within the community of medical museums throughout Europe. Principal objectives of the Association include development of exhibitions about the history of medical sciences and establishment of scientific criteria for collecting and presentation of artifacts. The Association meets every other year for a Congress to address issues of common concern, to present the fruit of research in our respective collections, and to promote international exchange and collaboration among medical history museums. The Association, although nominally European, today attracts participation from around the world and is thus the leading international body of medical museums and collections.
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The Bulletin de l’AEMHSM / Bulletin of the EAMHMS
Bulletin No 48 – Janvier/January 2011 Show ▼
Editorial: Thomas Söderqvist on the 15th Congress of the EAMHMS at Copenhagen; Message from Mme. Clin, president of the Association; Minutes of the meeting of the EAMHMS Council, 17 Sept 2010; Impressions of the 15th Congress (Contemporary medial science and technology as a challenge to museums) by Wendy Atkinson; Announcement of 10th EAMHMS workshop, a Kiev, Ukraine; Life in our Museums – Donald Blaufox on Museum of Historic Artifacts “Raison d’être”, and Musée de l’Assistance Publique – Hopitaux de Paris; Museum Project: Major Health Museum in Lyons enters new phase; Exhibitions, publications, and news
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Bulletin No 47 – Juin/June 2010 Show ▼
Editorial: upon retiring, homage to the Association and its members from Annick Perrot, Musée Pasteur; Museum Portrait – Remaining “Disturbingly Informative”: the Mütter Museum; Publications and exhibitions; Museum Portrait The Endoscopy Museum of the International Nitze-Leiter Research Society of Endoscopy; Life in our Museums – Humanizing the hospital: Instructions, Musée de l’Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris; The Collector of the “Curiosity Cabinet”, Almenno San Bartolomeo, Lombardy, Italy; and Space Biology and Medicine at the Pauls Stradins Museum for the History of Medicine, Riga, Latvia; News.
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Bulletin No 46 – Janvier/January 2010 Show ▼
Editorial: [on the value of the Association, and the role of curators to preserve, research, and interpret collections], by Marie-Véronique Clin and Annick Perrot; Call for papers for XV Congress in Copenhagen, Denmark; Minutes of the EAMHMS Council, 25 Sept 2009, Paris; Museum Portraits – The Dittrick Museum of Medical History, College of Arts and Sciences, Case Western Reserve University; Exhibitions; Museum Portraits – Beyond Specimens: The Berlin Museum of Medical History ad its permanent presentation; Exhibitions; News; Report of 9th workshop, Cluj, Romania
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Bulletin No 45 – Juin/June 2009 Show ▼
Editorial: Specifity of dental collections among medical collections, by Gerard Braye; Minutes of the special members meeting, 9 April 2009; Museum Portrait – The University Institute of the History of Medicine and Public Health, Lausanne, Switzerland; Exhibitions; Announcement of 9th workshop, Cluj, Romania; Museum Portrait – The former Hospice of Hautefort and its Museum of the History of Medicine; Publications; Life in our Museums – Museum renovation inspired by the past [Maisons Alfort]; News
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Bulletin No 44 – Janvier/January 2009 Show ▼
Editorial: Report on XIV Congress in Edinburgh, by Sara Barnes; Museum Portrait – The Basque Museum of the History of Medicine. A University Museum, Bilbao, Spain; Museum Portrait – Medical collections of the University of Tartu, Estonia; Publications; Museum Portrait – “Medicinsk Museion” – right between its 100th and 10th anniversary; Exhibitions; News
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Bulletin No 43 – Juin/June 2008 Show ▼
Editorial: preview and program of XIV Congress in Edinburgh, by Marie-Véronique Clin; Museum Portrait The Germanb Archive for the History of Tuberculosis, Fulda, Germany; Publications; Museum Portrait – The Württemberg Museum of Psychiatry, Zwiefalten, Germany; Exhibitions; Collections – Detailed description of Dr. Péan’s kit of surgical instruments
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Bulletin No 42 – Janvier/January 2008 Show ▼
Editorial: Moving on… and looking back, by Stella Mason; Life in our Museums: Paul Stradin Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga celebrates its 50th Anniversary; Minutes of the EAMHMS Council, Paris, 27 Sept 2007; Report on 8th workshop, Zagreb, Croatia, 2007; News, publications, and exhibitions
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Bulletin No 41 – Juin/June 2007 Show ▼
Editorial: The wonderland of medical sciences: the University of Sienna (Italy) collections of scientific instruments; Preview of XIV Congress in Edinburgh; Museum Portrait – The Toulouse Medical History Museum, Toulouse, France; News, publications, and exhibitions
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Bulletin No 40 – Décembre/December 2006 Show ▼
Bulletin No 40 – Décembre/December 2006 Editorial: The EAMHMS and university museums, by Willem J. Mulder; Report on the XIII Congress at Riga, Latvia; Plenary address from the XIII Congress: Medical Ojects of Historical Value as Part of our Cultural Heritage, by Christa Haubrich; Life in our Museums – The new Life Zone! Gallery of the Thackray Museum, Leeds, England; Publications, exhibitions, and news
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Bulletin No 39 – Juin/June 2006 Show ▼
Editorial: Why participation at congresses is necessary, by Marie-Véronique Clin; Museum News – The National Museum of Medicine of Ukraine and our Association; Museum Portrait – The Dutch Ambulance and First Aid Museum; Life in our Museums – The family life of the Pasteurs; Closed, and not yet closed: The Medical History Museum of Lund, Sweden; The Exhibitions; Publications
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Bulletin No 38 – Janvier/January 2006 Show ▼
Editorial: Medical Museums and Disability, XIII Congress of the EAMHMS, by Juris Salaks; News and exhibitions; 7th workshop, Kaunas, Lithuania; Publications
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Bulletin No 37 – Juin/June 2005 Show ▼
Editorial: Medical museums, controversy, and funding challenges and dilemmas, by Jim Edmonson and Judy Chelnick; Necrology Kârlis Eriks Arons (1933-2005); Museum Portrait – The Medico-Historical Collections at the Helsinki University Museum; Exhibitions; Museum Portrait -Educational Mission of a Specialized Historical Museum Museo Histórico Hospital Nacional de Clinicas, Cordoba, Argentina; New, publications, and internet news (AEMHSM/EAMHMS website)
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Bulletin No 36 – Janvier/January 2005 Show ▼
Editorial : A glance back at the XII Congress in Vienna, by Manfred Skopec and Micheala Zykan; Necrology – Gretchen Worden (1947-2004); Museum Portrait – The Old Pathology Building: Yesterday and Today. Indiana Medical History Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana; Redisplaying the Hunterian Collection: Project Update, by Stella Mason, Keepe3r of Collections, RCSE; News, exhibitions, and publications
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Bulletin No 35 – Février/February 2004 Show ▼
Editorial: Twenty years of the Association – A concise history, 1983-2003, by Christa Haubrich; Preliminary program of Congress XII in Vienna; Museum Portrait Medical instruments in the Museum of the Faculty of Medicine at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland; News; Technology – respirators and ventilators for polio in Denmark, 1952-53
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Bulletin No 34 – Juin/June 2003 Show ▼
Museum Portrait – The Josephinum in Vienna, Austria; Publications; Museum Portrait – The Aboca Museum, Sansepolcro, Italy; Exhibitions; Technology [on the artificial pnemothorax]
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Bulletin No 33 – Décembre/December 2002 Show ▼
Editorial: EAMHMS and University Museums, by Janis Vetra, Rector of Riga Stradin University; Minutes of the EAMHMS meeting, 12 Sept 2002; Museum portrait – the History of Pharmacy Museum in Cluj, Romania; News, exhibitions, and publications; Museum Portrait – Le Musée Fragonard de l’École Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, Paris
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Bulletin No 32 – Juin/June 2002 Show ▼
Editorial: [preview of 2002 Congress in Paris], by Marie-Véronique Clin and Jean Jacques Ferrandis; Museum Portrait – The Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret, London; News, exhibitions, and publications; Museum Portrait – Bibliothèque de l’Académie national de Médecine, Paris
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Bulletin No 31 – Décembre/December 2001 Show ▼
Editorial: [on medical progress in times of crisis], by Jean Jacques Ferrandis; Museum closing – Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain; Museum Portrait – Hôpital Notre-Dame à la Rose, Lessines, Belgium; News, exhibitions, and publications
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Bulletin No 30 – Juillet/July 2001 Show ▼
Editorial: Letter from London, by Stella Mason; Necrology: Charles Mérieux (1907-2001); Museum Portrait – Ercolani Museum, Bologna, Italy; Restoration – Jacques Le Breton, restorer of scientific objects; Museum Portrait The Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity in Life, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Exchanges; Museum Portrait – The Medical History Center for Medial History, Medicine Faculty of Vilnius University, Lithuania; and Le Musee de l’Hospice Saint-Roch; Exhibitions, news, and publications
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Bulletin No 29 – Janvier/January 2001 Show ▼
Editorial: [on homes of medical scientists as museums], by Annick Perrot, Musee Pasteur; Minutes of the EAMHMS meeting, Porto, Portugal, 7 Sept 2000; Report on the Congress in Porto, by Amélia Ricon Ferraz; Museum Portrait – The Museum of Medical History of Rome; News and exhibitions; Museum Portrait – The Anatomical Museum of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the University of Florence, Italy
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Bulletin No 28 – Juin/June 2000 Show ▼
Editorial: Kees Grooss on collection development and management; Welcome to the 10th Congress in Porto from by Amélia Ricon Ferra, and preliminary meeting program; Summary of Council Meeting minutes, 10 & 11 Sept 1999; Museum portrait – Le Musée de la Médecine de Bruxelles; Museum portrait – Le Musée de la Pharmacie Picciola, Trieste; General information – Allergy Documentation and Information Center, Bad Lippspringe, Germany; Publications, news, and internet news; New acquisitions
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Bulletin No 27 – Décembre/December 1999 Show ▼
Editorial: Marie-Véronique Clin on the promise and shortcomings of internet access to collections, and the importance of directly studying artifacts; New member museums; Museum portrait – the new Alexandre Yersin Museum in Nha Trang, Vietnam; Publications; Museum portrait – Le Musée de l’Écorché d’Anatomie ( of Dr. Auzoux), Le Neubourg, France; News; Report of the 4th EAMHMS workshop, on cleaning moulages and anatomical models, in Riga, Latvia; Internet news; Planned exhibitions; Exhibitions; New acquisitions
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Bulletin No 26 – Juin/June 1999 Show ▼
Editorial: Felip Cid on medical museology vis a vis medical history, and the role of the EAMHMS; Announcement of the forthcoming X Congress of the EAMHMS in Porto, Portugal, 6-9 Sept 2000; Museum portrait – Belgian Museum of Radiology; News; Exhibitions; Publications; News
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Bulletin No 25 – Décembre/December 1998 Show ▼
Editorial: Christa Haubrich on the new format and content of the Bulletin; Minutes of the General Meeting of the EAMHMS in Leeds, 22 Aug 1998; Report by Helen Fryers on the 9th Congress of the EAMHMS; Museum portrait – Le Musée Claude Bernard, Fondation Marcel Mérieux; News; Report on the 3rd Workshop of the EAMHMS, Minsk, Belarus, 24-29 Aug 1997; News; Planned exhibitions; Exhibtions; Publications; Information; New acquisitions; News
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Bulletin No 24 – June 1998 Show ▼
Directory of Museums and Collections of the History of Medical Sciences, compiled by Kees S. Grooss
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Bulletin No 23 – Mars/March 1997 Show ▼
Report by Stephen W. G. de Clercq, of the General Meeting of the EAMHMS, at the 8th Congress, held in Göteborg, Sweden, 26 Aug 1996; New members; News; Planned exhibitions; Publications; Varia; Andries J. van Dam (Museum of Anatomy, Leiden) on the conservation of fluid preserved specimens; Willem J. Mulder on choices in conservation and restoration of historic specimens – an ethical approach
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Bulletin No 22 – Juin/June 1996 Show ▼
Election of the Council; Agenda for the 8th Congress of the EAMHMS to be held in Göteborg, Sweden; News of museums and collections; Preliminary program for the meeting in Göteborg; Planned exhibitions; Publications; Varia: Update of Fischer’s Biographisches Lexikon Hervorragender Arzte; Bob Baljet (Museum Vrolik) on displaying specimens of human congenital malformations, and guidebook to the teratological collection
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Bulletin No 21 – Décembre/December 1995 Show ▼
Report by Christoph Mörgeli on the 7th Congress of the EAMHMS in Zurich, 8-10 Sept 1994; News of museums and collections; Planned exhibitions; Meetings; Report By Willem J. Mulder on the 2nd EAMHMS workshop in Kaunas, Lithuania, 26 Aug – 2 Sept 1995; Publications; Varia – Kees Grooss (Boerhaave Museum) on identifying and documenting museum objects; Mara Scheelings (Boerhaave Museum) on accession and registration of artifacts, and the challenge of large collections
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Bulletin No 19 – Février/February 1994 Show ▼
In memorium: Jacqueline Sonolet (1916-1993) and Jozsef Antall (1932-1993); New members; Next Congress, “Medical objects and their story,” in Zurich, Switzerland, 8-10 Sept 1994; News of museums and collections; Planned exhibitions; Varia – Kees Grooss on inventory of anatomical and pathological moulages; Report by Willem J. Mulder on 1st EAMHMS workshop on conservation and restoration of wet specimens, Riga, Latvia, 6-16 Sept 1994
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Bulletin No 18 – Août/August 1993 Show ▼
New members; News of museums and collections; Current exhibitions; Planned exhibitions; Publications; Varia
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Bulletin No 17 – Janvier/January 1993 Show ▼
Minutes of the General Meeting of the EAMHMS held in Leyden, 4 Sept 1992, at the 6th Congress of the Association; New members; Provisional program of the next Congress, to be held in Zurich, 7-9 Sept 1994; News of museums and collections; Current exhibitions; Planned exhibitions; Publications
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ulletin No 16 – Juillet/July 1992 Show ▼
EAMHMS news; Agenda of the EAMHMS General Meeting in September 1992, and Congress program; News of museums and collections; Current exhibitions; Publications; Varia
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Bulletin No 15 – Janvier/January 1992 Show ▼
EAMHMS News; Call for paper for next Congress; News of museums and collections; Current exhibitions; Planned exhibitions; Publications; Varia
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Bulletin No 14 – Juillet/July 1991 Show ▼
EAMHMS news; Next Congress, with a theme of “The emergence of a European Market for medical instruments and apparatus;” News of museums and collections; Current exhibitions; Planned exhibitions; Publications; Meetings
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Bulletin No 13 – Janvier/January 1991 Show ▼
EAMHMS News; Minutes of the General Meeting in Barcelona, 8 Sept 1990; News of museums and collections; Publications
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Bulletin No 12 – Juin/June 1990 Show ▼
News of museums and collections; Planned exhibitions; EAMHMS news; Publications
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Bulletin No 11 – Décembre/December 1989 Show ▼
Next Congress: the 5th Congress of the EAMHMS to be held 5-8 Sept 1990 at Barecelona, with thems of “Problems and scientific aspects of collecting, documenting, restoring, preserving and exhibiting objects of medical themes,” and “Instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries;” EAMHMS news; News of museums and collections; Current exhibitions; Publications; Varia
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Bulletin No 10 – Juin/June 1989 Show ▼
Directory of museums and collections of the history of medical sciences, 1989; Current exhibitions; Publications; Varia
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Bulletin No 9 – Dec 1988 Show ▼
Editor Urs Boschung steps down as editor; EAMHMS news (Minutes of the General Assembly held in Pavia, 8 September 1988; News of museums and collections; Current exhibitions; Planned shows; Varia; Publications; Medical historical museums
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Bulletin No 8 – Mai/May 1988 Show ▼
Announcement of Congress IV to be held in Pavia/Milan, 7-10 September 1988; News of the Association; New members; News of museums and collections; Publications; Medical historical museums
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Bulletin No 7 – Décembre/December 1987 Show ▼
Next Congress, 1-10 Sept 1988 in Pavia/Milan, Italy; Proposed theme of the 4th Congress of the EAMHMS: “Medicine and Museums: Today and Tomorrow;” EAMHMS News; Internal rules of the Association, adopted by the General Meeting, Ingolstadt, 12 Nov 1986; Formation of Medical Museums Association of North America; Current exhibitions; Publications; News of museums and collections
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Bulletin No 6 – Mai/May 1987 Show ▼
EAMHMS news; Publications; Next Congress [Congress No 4, to be held in Pavia, Italy, 8-10 September 1988; News of museums and collections; Planned shows; Current exhibitions
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Bulletin No 5 – Décembre/December 1986 Show ▼
EAMHMS news; News of museums and collections; Current exhibitions; Planned shows; Publications; Medical historical museums listing
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Bulletin No 4 – Mai/May 1986 Show ▼
Next Congress of the EAMHMS to be held at Ingolstadt, 10-14 Sept 1986; Topics of the 3rd Congress of the EAMHMS will include archeology and the history of medicine, and the history of ophthalmology; News of museums and collections; Current exhibitions; Planned exhibitions; Publications; Medical historical museums listing
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Bulletin No 3 – Décembre/December 1985 Show ▼
EAMHMS News; Report of council meeting held at Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, at the Musée Claude Bernard, 6-8 Sept 1985; Preliminary program for the next Congress to be held at Ingolstadt, 1-14 Sept 1986; News of museums and collections; American Association of Medical History Museums formed and will meet in Rochester, New York, Spring 1986; Current exhibitions; Publications; Planned shows; Medical historical museums listing; Varia
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Bulletin No 2 – Juin/June 1985 Show ▼
EAMHMS news – Council meeting to be held at Saint-Julien-en-Beaujolais, at the Musée Claude Bernard, 6-8 Sept 1985; Preliminary program of 3rd Congress of the EAMHMS to be held at Ingolstadt, 10-14 Sept 1986; Planned shows; List of museums and collections of the history of medical science in West Germany
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Bulletin No 1 – Décembre/December 1984 Show ▼
EAMHMS news – minutes of the General Meeting held at London, at the Wellcome Museum of the History of Medicine [Science Museum], 12 Sept 1984; Museums of history of medical sciences listing.
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