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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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Location, Location 6

History

Here's the last in our series looking at the different locations of Bethlem Royal Hospital.

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In the Frame for November 2013: Dawe’s ‘My Own Mother and Myself’

Art, Collection

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

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Mansions in the Orchard 2: Focus group for Bethlem site users

Events

Last month, we announced a new project the Archives & Museum are undertaking, exploring life in the twentieth-century Bethlem Hospital, supported...

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Hospital Snapshots 11

Collection, History

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

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New Bethlem Gallery exhibition: Unescorted #5

Art, Exhibitions

 The Unescorted series of exhibitions has been running annually for 5 years to showcase the talents of patients working within River House...

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Emotion and Psychotherapy: Historical Perspectives

History

Several recent events have raised some interesting discussions around the history of psychiatry and psychology. Earlier this month, the Centre...

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The Advertisement Archive II

Stray advertisements from the Journal of Mental Science.

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Telling Admissions 5

Personal accounts

This month we look at the experiences of Psychiatrist Patrick Wakeling when he became a psychiatric patient.

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Raving and Melancholy Madness on tour

Art, Collection

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...

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The Bedlam Bones: Excavation, History and Myth

Events

Regular readers of this blog will be aware that we've long been pointing out the holes in stories claiming the skeletons unearthed at Bishopsgate...

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Women and the Mind Doctors: Upcoming exhibitions

Events

Two exciting exhibitions open early next month, one of which features a number of items from the Bethlem Collection. The Freud Museum's Mad...

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