Gordon Museum
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The Gordon Museum is an independent department, now affiliated to the School of
Medicine within GKT, but still providing a range of services and functions to
all of GKT.
The Museum has a large and growing collection of approximately 8,000
pathological specimens. This teaching collection is arranged in most part
systemically but with some smaller specialised sub-collections on for instance,
Forensic Medicine and HIV - AIDS. As medical education becomes more topic-based
the intention is to redevelop areas of the collection.
There are also a number of important historic collections. The Joseph Towne Anatomical and Dermatological wax model collections, the Lam Qua painting collection and specimen and artefact collections of Hodgkin, Addison, Bright and Astley Cooper. All these are on permanent display throughout the Gordon Museum. The Museum is arranged into four bays, each of which is divided into three floors. The two upper floors are galleries, which ring the bays and hold the specimen collections. The ground floor areas are each arranged in such a way so as to provide a range of functions. The Percy Roberts' Room is arranged as a lecture theatre, which can hold up to 65 people. The Dunhill and Joe Daws Anatomy Rooms provide tutorial and meeting areas and the Aesculapius room can be used for multiple tutorials, smaller meetings and occasional reading areas. Data projection, 35mm slide and overhead projection and a projection microscope are available, as is some bookable computer space. Video players are available in all rooms. The Gordon Museum has over 500 Videotape and Tape-Slide programmes on a wide range of Medical and Dental topics. These are available for use within the Museum. The Museum also has a collection of over 200,000 clinical transparencies, which are available for loan, for lectures and occasionally publication. Also found in the Gordon Museum are two computer networks. The internal Museum network, found mostly on the galleries, has a large number of programs, which relate directly to the specimens on display and general pathology. There is also a CD- ROM system found in the Dunhill room, this is a new part of the internal network with the number of CD-ROM titles rapidly increasing. The other network is one of the GKT PAWS clusters of computers. There are 40 stations at present spread between the Joe Daws Anatomy Room and the Percy Roberts Room, those in the Percy Roberts room are bookable for computer related portions of the GKT syllabus. The Gordon Museum has a smaller satellite collection called the Shattock Museum, which is on the St.Thomas's campus, an additional satellite collection has recently been added, this is on the Denmark Hill Campus. Both of these Museums have good collections of teaching specimens. |