Hunterian Museum bicentenary

Abstract

On 18 May 1813, in the new building designed by George Dance the Younger on Lincoln's Inn Fields, the Royal College of Surgeons in London opened the museum that had crystallised around John Hunter's collection to members of the College. This quiet beginning has been amplified over the centuries. The College marked the sesquicentenary in 1963 by inviting Harold Macmillan to open the Hunterian Museum, finally rebuilt after the Second World war. We may not be hosting the Prime Minister this time (although Mr Cameron remains a Hunterian trustee ex officio), but we do have an exciting raft of projects to mark the bicentenary.