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Read our volunteer's thoughts on Dan Duggan's 'Cipher Series 1'.

Here we resume a series of posts detailing some of the unanticipated intersections of interest that museum visitors bring to our notice from...

This new series focuses on the collection of photographs taken at Bethlem in the late 1850s by Victorian photographer Henry Hering.

Read more about the thoughts of this well-known Japanese author and political theorist on his visit to Bethlem in 1862.

Read more about the discussions that go on behind the scenes when exhibiting objects and stories related to mental health.

The early history of Bethlem featured in a well attended talk given at the Crossrail Visitor Information Centre on Wednesday evening. Project...

Two artists associated with the Archives and Museum are currently exhibiting in a new show at the Old Vic Tunnels. Bedlam is described as the...

Hear more about the exciting work of artist, Von Stropp.

At the time this post goes live on our blog, our Registrar will be speeding towards Belgium (courtesy of Eurostar) to deliver Bethlem’s contribution...

In the introduction to Medical Muses, a study of hysterical patients in the Salpêtrière Hospital in the nineteenth century, Asti Hustvedt notes...

The new series of lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum begins in October, and includes several events that should be of interest...

We recently blogged about our new exhibition, Cheating Death and Time: the Work of Stanley Lench, which opened this week. This retrospective...