Scientific and medical collection of the University of Valencia | |
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Organised by: | University of Valencia and Institute for the History of Medicine and Science López Piñero |
Curator: | José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez, Joaquim Guillem Llobat, Àlvar Martínez Vidal y Pedro Ruiz-Castell (coordinator) |
Place: | Exhibition Hall of the Palacio de Cerveró |
Timetable: | Open to the public from Monday to Friday from 9 to 20 hours. For guided tours: visites.guiades@uv.es, phone number 963 531076 |
Description: | |
The exhibition includes pieces from the collection of scientific and medical instruments of the University of Valencia, as well as material from its bibliographic heritage and audiovisual documents. The tour starts with a solar camera of the Astronomic Observatory of the University (1935) and concludes with an X-ray diffraction equipment (1956-1957). The exhibition is the first part of the scientific and medical permanent collection of the University, a collection with a long history. There are more than 1,800 pieces, and the collections keeps growing, with individual donations from doctors who make it being alive and constantly evolving. It is therefore, a unique example due to his exhibition quality and because it shows a fundamental part of the identity of the University. The second thematic exhibition, titled Medicine and Society, is located in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Valencia.
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