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St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive

St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive

St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive

Open to the public

Museum or gallery in Central London

113 artworks

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St Bartholomew’s Hospital, or Barts as it is popularly known, is one of the oldest and most distinguished hospitals in the world. It was founded in 1123 by the monk Rahere and granted by Henry VIII to the City of London in 1546. Thus Barts has been caring for the sick and the injured on its present site for almost nine centuries. Today the hospital forms part of Barts and the London NHS Trust. St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archives incorporates the finest hospital archives in Britain, an art collection incorporating works by Hogarth, Millais and Reynolds and a museum displaying many of the treasures of the hospital within the setting of the Grade I listed North Wing.

North Wing, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London, Greater London EC1A 7BE England

barts.archives@bartshealth.nhs.uk

020 3465 5798

St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum and Archive is open Tuesday to Friday, 10am–4pm but sometimes closes at short notice – call in advance of a special visit. A limited number of paintings are publicly accessible via the Museum; contact the Archivist for more information.

https://bartshealth.nhs.uk/st-bartholomews-museum-and-archives

Artworks

  • Antony Brett (1913–1981), Last Steward of the Hospital (1947–1977)
    Antony Brett (1913–1981), Last Steward of the Hospital (1947–1977) Simon Brett (b.1943)
    St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive
  • Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill (1876–1957), GCVO, CMG, Pioneer Thyroid Surgeon
    Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill (1876–1957), GCVO, CMG, Pioneer Thyroid Surgeon Herbert James Gunn (1893–1964)
    St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive
  • Kenneth Temple Brown
    Kenneth Temple Brown Richard Stone (b.1951)
    St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive
  • William Harvey (1578–1657)
    William Harvey (1578–1657) Edward Marshall (1597/1598–1675) (copy of)
    St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive
  • William Prichard, President of St Bartholomew's Hospital
    William Prichard, President of St Bartholomew's Hospital Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723) (after)
    St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive
  • William Harvey (1578–1657), Physician
    William Harvey (1578–1657), Physician Cornelius Johnson (1593–1661) (after)
    St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive
  • Rahere Laying the Foundation Stone
    Rahere Laying the Foundation Stone Richards (attributed to)
    St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum and Archive
  • 106 more

Artists

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    John Prescott Knight (1803–1881)
  • First World War: Wounded Sailors Listening to Musicians Playing on Board a Ship
    Oswald Moser (1874–1953)
  • Self Portrait
    Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723)
  • Folly
    Edward Onslow Ford (1852–1901)
  • Ophelia
    John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
  • Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve ('The Ambassadors')
    Hans Holbein the younger (c.1497–1543)
  • Portrait of a Governor
    Philip Tennyson Cole (1862–1939)
  • George Ellis, Consultant Anaesthetist at St Bartholomew's Hospital (1949–1973)
    William Alexander Dargie (1912–2003)
  • Edmond Halley (1656–1742)
    Thomas Murray (1663–1735)
  • The Lustre Bowl
    William Nicholson (1872–1949)

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  • British Dental Association Dental Museum
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