Medicinhistoriska museet in Göteborg

The Medical History Museum, located at Östra Hamngatan 11 in Göteborg, offers a captivating glimpse into the city's medical past. The museum opened at this address in 1986 within the Oterdahlska house, which was donated to Sahlgrenska hospital in 1808 by the merchant Aron Oterdahl. The museum displays an extensive collection of medical instruments, equipment, and textiles dating back to the 1700s. Highlights include reconstructed hospital rooms spanning various time periods and Per Westring's collection of instruments from the early 1800s.

The first Medicinhistoriska museet was inaugurated on December 14, 1976, and opened to the public on January 1, 1977. The collections were originally created by nurse Ingeborg Kastman in the mid-1930s from items found in an old maternity home. One of the most unique items in the collection is Göteborg's and Sweden's first ambulance, manufactured in 1876 in Heidelberg. It was a wooden structure with a canvas canopy, pulled by four men, and remained in use until the early 1900s.

Inger Wikström-Haugen served as the first intendent and later the head of the museum until 2009. For her work, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Gothenburg in 2010. In 2016, she was awarded the Otterhällans Kulturpris. Lisa Sputnes Mouwitz became the head of the museum in 2015. The museum's displays are organized around themes that present the general development of medical history from antiquity to the present day.

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