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Please note the Museum is closed from 22 December 2024 to 1 January 2025 inclusive.
Last day open 2024: Saturday 21 December.  First day open 2025: Thursday 2 January.

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Caption This I

Art, Collection

As part of a new series on our blog, we are looking for your thoughts on captions for some of the artworks in our collection. We're working on...

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The Advertisement Archive V

Collection

Stray advertisements from the Journal of Mental Science.

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Connect 10 - last few days of voting!

Competition

As you'll have seen from our post last week we're in the running to win the chance to work with acclaimed photographer, Rankin.  Voting closes...

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We Are Not Amused I

Collection, History

Read the first of Dr Nick Hervey's blogs about a range of people who got too close for Her Majesty's comfort between 1837 and 1852.

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Virtual Book Club: Introduction

Literature

On this blog over the past three years, we have briefly reviewed or referred to many works of classic and contemporary fiction that concern themselves...

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Vote for us!!

Collection, Competition, News

You may remember us announcing back in December that we have been shortlisted to win a day working with the photographer, Rankin.  Well, the...

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Confronting the Collections

Collection, News

As many of you will be aware, Bethlem Archives and Museum are in the process of moving to a bigger and better place on the hospital site.  Part...

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In the Frame for January 2014: Philip O’Connor’s ‘Fools 1’

Art, Collection

Our first 'In the Frame' of 2014 comes from our newly retired Conservation Officer.

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Mind Maps: Experimental Psychology at the Science Museum

Exhibitions

This new exhibition at the Science Museum offers a thought-provoking take on medical and experimental psychology through the centuries. Mind...

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Gericault: Images of Life and Death

Art, Exhibitions

Gericault: Images of Life and Death, currently on show at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and moving to Museum Voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent in February...

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The Advertisement Archive IV

Collection

Stray advertisements from the Journal of Mental Science.

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Christmas at Bethlem 2

Collection, History

Find out more about how Christmas has been marked at Bethlem in the past.

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