The Medical Museum

"The Medical Museum 1980" is at the Palmerston North Hospital. At present the display consists of a "theatre" with operating tables, anaesthetic machines and autoclaves etc. The main display has an iron lung, neonatal incubators, staff uniforms, a school dental clinic, ophthalmic equipment, orhopaedic instruments, hearing aids, lab equipment, "Ward 13" and a library of old text-books.

The display cases within the hospital show a wide variety of surgical instruments, medical equipment, historic home-remedy machines, and Public Health education displays.