Thackray Museum, one of Europe's largest medical museums, explores the social impact of past and present medical advances using award-winning interactive displays. It's located next to an important teaching hospital, St James', on the edge of Leeds' Harehills district.
From the Victorian operating theatre to the wonders of modern surgery, the galleries, collections and interactive displays bring to life the history of health and disease, treatments and cure, medical discoveries, equipment and technology.
You'll also get to explore life in Leeds in the 1840s, by stepping into a reconstructed Victorian street. Here you can follow the lives, ailments and treatments of Victorian characters.