Thackray Museum

Thackray Museum

. Since it opened in 1997 it has won "Museum of the Year" and other awards.

Highlights include "Life in Victorian Leeds": visitors walk through a reproduction of slum streets complete with authentic sights, sounds and smells and are invited to follow the lives, ailments and treatments of eight Victorian characters, making the choices that determine their survival amongst the rats, fleas and bedbugs. "Pain, pus and blood" describes surgery before anaesthesia, and "Having a baby" focuses on developments in safety for childbirth. "Hannah Dyson's ordeal" is a reconstruction of 1842 surgery, before anaesthetics were in use: visitors watch as 11-year old Hannah undergoes amputation of her leg after it was crushed in a mill accident. "The life zone" is an interactive children's gallery. There are also temporary exhibition galleries. The building is a Grade 2 listed building, a former workhouse adjacent to St James's Hospital.

External links

* [http://www.thackraymuseum.org/ Museum website]
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