Trailblazers & Peacekeepers – An award winning exhibition
A year into the Great War, Allied eyes were drawn to the Straits of the Dardanelles; a narrow strip of water effectively separating Europe from Asia Minor. Securing the Dardanelles would open up Turkey as a reliable supply route and “…serve to secure Egypt, to induce...
What’s in the case? Cataloguing a shelf of doctors’ kits at the Geoffrey Kaye Museum
Caroline Deighton is a student with Deakin University’s Museum Studies program and a Museum Accreditation Program manager with Museums Australia (Victoria). Caroline has undertaken a cataloguing project to provide adequate information and background to existing...
From Snake Oil to Science: Developing our latest exhibition
Every year we change out one section of the exhibition space to create a new display. The topics are many and varied, and it’s a lot of work, but we think it’s worth it. The museum is a very small space and visitors shouldn’t ever feel they’ve seen everything we have...
Welcome
Welcome to Pins and Needles, the brand new blog of the Geoffrey Kaye Museum of Anaesthetic History. We’re really excited to have you join us. The Geoffrey Kaye Museum has been around since about 1935. It began as the personal collection of Dr Geoffrey Kaye, a...