Blog - Collection

In autumn 2014, the Bethlem Museum will be moving to the main administration block of the Bethlem Royal Hospital. The Museum will draw on an...

This month's 'In the Frame' tells us more about the fascinating life of Vaslav Nijinsky.

This month's 'In the Frame' looks at little-known artist, Dawe.

This series has looked at instances of providing doctors with visual evidence so important in determining patient progress.

Last week we said 'au revoir' to our two well-known statues, Raving and Melancholy Madness.  They have gone on their travels first to Frankfurt...

This month we continue our look at voyeurism in museums.

The programme for the forthcoming Society for the Social History of Medicine annual conference has recently been released. Held at the Centre...

This month's curatorial conversation looks at the issue of voyeurism in museums.

Read the latest in our series of Curatorial Conversations.

This month's curatorial conversation looks at the recent trend in reclamation and memorialisation of asylum cemeteries.

This month we look at the idea of 'Challenging history' and how museums can go about displaying objects and histories that people may not wish to see.

In the small space of the present Bethlem Museum, we can only display around five per cent of our nearly 1,000 artworks at any one time. Luckily...