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On Saturday 5 May, the new Langdon Down Museum of Learning Disability hosted a conference focused on the Normansfield Hospital. Founded in 1868...

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

As part of this years Museums at Night - when hundreds of museums around the country open their doors after hours - Bethlem Archives and Museum...

This month’s post (and another one to be published in July) on Charlotte Brontë in the Just Visiting series is written by our guest blogger, the Canadian author

Find out more about the portrayal of mental health in Opera.

Find out more about Anna Kavan's portrait of the 'elusive protagonist' of her novels 'Ice' and 'Mercury'.

The issue of what exactly comprises damage to the physical body appears in a number of contemporary debates within medicine and more widely...

Learn more about the history W.H.R. Rivers, doctoer to famous war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

On 2 May, a new exhibition opens at the Bethlem Gallery. Steph’s vibrant, illustrative paintings and drawings explore narrative, spontaneity...

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.

( continued from previous post )Our volunteer continues:The retrospective reinterpretation of Kusama’s work by critics was fuelled by an interest...

As we lead up to the London 2012 Olympics, join us to find out more about the significance of sport at Bethlem.