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With over 450 years of material, the Bethlem archives are enormous. A new blog series will showcase some of its history. 

Portraits; Patients and Psychiatrists By Gemma Anderson New show at the Bethlem Gallery 19 May – 18 June 2010The new Bethlem Gallery exhibition...

We welcome visits from both primary and secondary schools and whenever possible take the opportunity to talk to teachers about what we can offer...

So what does the museum’s part-time registrar do when she’s not at Bethlem? Answer - an MA in Museum Studies at UCL. A major part of the course...

In an archive comprising half a millennia’s worth of paper records, the work of a conservator is never done. It is a slow and steady labour...

There's another chance to catch the History Channel's recent documentary "Bedlam - the History of Bethlem Hospital" this week. The show, first...

This blog has been set up by the Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum and will provide regular updatest...

Curator and former Bethlem Museum registrar Rebecca Lodge talks about her excitement at being invited back to create this wonderful exhibition.

"Scaling the Citadel" curator Rebecca Lodge takes a deeper look at one of Stanley Lench's earliest works, "Dancing Cats."

A tweet from UK Parliamentary Archives leads Colin Gale, Bethlem Museum Archivist, on an unexpected journey.

The credibility of a certain infamous quote is called into question...

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.