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    The medicine collection is currently not open to the public. The objects can be viewed by researchers and are available for loan to museums and exhibition venues.

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The beginnings of Bern's medical collection date back to the 19th century, when employees of the Inselspital began storing objects in the hospital's cellars.

The beginnings of Bern's medical collection date back to the 19th century, when employees of the Inselspital began to store objects in the hospital's cellars. From the 1960s onwards, instruments and equipment worthy of preservation were systematically collected on the initiative of the then director of the Inselspital, Fritz Leu. Since 1989

the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Bern has been in charge of the Inselspital collection. Most of the objects originate from the clinical context, predominantly from 1950 onwards. The collection focuses on medical equipment, objects from the care sector, patient furniture, surgical and examination furniture as well as surgical and gynaecological instruments.

In addition to the Inselspital's medical collection, the Institute of Medical History looks after three other collections at the University of Bern - a general medical history collection, a collection of spectacles dating back to Otto Hallauer and a pharmacognostic collection.

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Medizinsammlung Bern
Murtenstrasse 42
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031 632 79 87
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Murtenstrasse 42
3008 Bern
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