Hunterian Museum
The Royal College of Surgeons' museum at Lincoln's Inn Fields, tracing the history of surgery through 18th-century anatomist John Hunter's own specimen collection, reopened in 2023 after a five-year, £4.6 million redevelopment.
- Museum
- Price: Free
Open in A Reason to StopFree on the App Store. iPhone, iOS 26 or later.
Did you know
The museum closed for five years (2017–2023) for its rebuild, and now displays over 2,000 of Hunter's original anatomical preparations in a single 22-metre gallery, England's largest public display of human anatomy.
Local tip
This is real preserved human anatomy on public display, not illustrations or models. Worth knowing before you go if that's not something you want to see, and worth seeking out specifically if it is.
Finding it
- Address
- 35-43, Lincoln's Inn Fields, St Clement Danes, Covent Garden, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, WC2A 3PE
- Nearest station
- Chancery Lane (Tube), 432 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- The Seven StarsA Grade II-listed pub on Carey Street behind the Royal Courts of Justice, dating from at least 1602 and among the oldest surviving pub buildings in London.
- Sir John Soane's MuseumThe architect's own house, left exactly as it was in 1837. Crammed floor to ceiling with antiquities, paintings, and architectural curiosities.
- Australia HouseThe Australian High Commission's grand marble banking hall, doubling as Gringotts Wizarding Bank in the first Harry Potter film.
- Twinings MuseumA tiny museum at the back of the 216 Strand Twinings shop, on the site the tea company has continuously traded from since 1717, generally reckoned to be London's oldest business run by the same family on the same site.