Health and Medicine Museums is a special interest group for people interested in preserving the artefacts of health and medicine.

HMM provides

• a network of contacts
• a forum for ideas
• mutual support and assistance
• HMM has a national committee with representatives from different states of Australia. There are also state chapters, each with its own chapter committee, in New South Wales and Victoria.

• Exhibiting Human Remains
  By popular demand papers from HMM's May 2001 seminar are available on line as a .pdf document.
  Featuring thoughtful and revealing papers by eight invited speakers, topics covered include: the ethics of exhibiting human remains, death and violence; WWI pathology specimens; school excursions; human remains in art; and repatriation of Indigenous skeletal remains.
  
• Download Exhibiting Human Remains (PDF File - 264KB)

HMM Discussion List

• Members and subscribers can exchange information, find answers to tricky questions about their collections, and publicize their museum's events and publications through the HMM-discuss email discussion list. Subscribers privacy is protected and the list is moderated.