Hunterian Museum, London

The Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons on Lincoln's Inn Fields displays the extraordinary anatomical collection assembled by the eighteenth-century surgeon John Hunter, a pioneer of scientific surgery. Thousands of preserved specimens illustrate comparative anatomy, disease and the history of medicine, alongside historic surgical instruments. Reopened after a major redevelopment, it traces the development of surgery from crude early operations to modern techniques in a compelling and sometimes startling display.