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Museum · Napoli (NA)

Museum of Health Arts and History of Medicine

  • Visit: about 1 h 30 min
Pictured: Napoli · Wolfgang Moroder · CC BY-SA 3.0 · resized and cropped

A museum on the history of medicine founded in 2010, with a library room and four rooms of books, instruments and historic medical items.

The museum grew out of an exhibition set up in 2010 to celebrate the founding of the old hospital, an anniversary that falls on 23 March. From that first core a route devoted to the history of medicine has developed, which today includes a library room and four exhibition rooms.In the display cases we find old books and medical instruments, together with historic medical items from old hospital buildings in the city. The museum also works as a cataloguing and research centre. We like it because it tells a lesser-known side of Naples' history: we recommend a visit if you are curious to discover how people were treated in the past.

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