One Museum, Four Galleries

The aim of this museum is to ilustrate and present chapters in the history of medicine, from ancient times to the modern era, with emphasis on the changes, sometimes even progress in medical approaches as well as the development of the physician as an artisan, scientist with the finite goal of man of ethics.

  • At the first floor, the first wing (the Arcade Gallery) follows the development of the physician as artisan from ancient times until the Renaissance.
  • The second wing (the Main Hall) examines the significant differences between Hippocratic and modern medicine in the light of the development in diagnostic methods, therapies and preventive medicine. It also examines the interactions between the sciences and the different branches of medicine, describing the growth of the physician and his tools of the trade as a scientist from the time of the Renaissance until today. The developments of some of the more common tools (statoscop, baby feeders, scalpels, forceps etc.) are described and presented.
  • The third wing (The Auditorium) of the museum deals with medical education and medical ethics.
  • At the third floor, the fourth and last wing describes Medicine and the physician in Israel. In addition, masks, statues and original pictures illustrate different chapter and topics of human medicine.