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Cornelia Parker reflects on the Bethlem Museum of the Mind artwork that has inspired her as part of a new digital series in partnership with the Royal Academy and The Space.

Volunteer’s Week is a national celebration of all those people who give up their time to various organisations. This post looks at the lovely Bethlem Museum vol

See the beginnings of works to build the new Bethlem Museum of the Mind.

The Edward Adamson Festival, launching on Wednesday 12 February, is a celebration of the life and work of artist Edward Adamson (1911-1996...

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

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...

Find out the results of our survey on 'whose narrative' for the new museum.

Here's a summary of our recent survery looking at how we might display challenging objects in the new museum.

This week we've been compiling much of the feedback received from our online questionnaires as well as those completed in person at various events...

The history of the Bethlem Royal Hospital spans hundreds of years, bringing us right up to the present day. As such it can give an account of...

As our ongoing Hospital Snapshots series has explored, the new technique of photography was quickly adopted by asylum physicians from the 1850s...

As we explored in our former series, Curatorial Conversations, one of the challenges facing a museum of psychiatry is the vast number of potentially...