Editing King's College London (section)

=== Museums, galleries and collections ===
[[File:Opening George III museum.jpg|thumb|Opening of the King George III Museum by [[Albert, Prince Consort]] on 1 July 1843]]

King's operates two museums: the [[Gordon Museum of Pathology]] and the [[Museum of Life Sciences]], neither of which are open to the public. The Gordon Museum collection dates back to the opening of the medical school at Guy's Hospital in 1826; the current museum was opened by the hospital in 1905.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/centre-for-education/museums/gordon-museum/origins-of-the-gordon-museum|title= Origins of the Gordon Museum|author= William G. J. Edwards|publisher=King's College London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> The Gordon Museum says it is the largest medical museum in the United Kingdom, with a collection of approximately 8,000 pathological specimens, artefacts, models and paintings, including [[Astley Cooper]]'s specimens and [[Sir Joseph Lister]]'s antiseptic spray.<ref name="Gordon Museum" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/centre-for-education/museums/gordon-museum/the-collection |title=The Collection |publisher=King's College London |access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref> The Museum of Life Sciences was founded in 2009 adjacent to the Gordon Museum, and holds historic biological and pharmaceutical collections from the colleges that are now part of King's College London.<ref name="Life Sciences Museum" />

Between 1843 and 1927, the [[King George III Museum]] was a museum within King's College London which housed the collections of scientific instruments of [[George III]] and eminent nineteenth-century scientists (including [[Sir Charles Wheatstone]] and [[Charles Babbage]]). Due to space constraints, much of the museum's collections were transferred on loan to the [[Science Museum, London|Science Museum]] in London or kept in King's College London Archives.<ref>{{cite web |title=The King George III Museum Collection, [1768–1970] |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/g/10ge50-1/ |website=College Archives |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=14 February 2016}}</ref>

The Anatomy Museum was a museum situated on the 6th floor of the [[King's Building, London|King's Building]] at the Strand Campus. The Anatomy Theatre was built next door to the museum in 1927,<ref name="Anatomy-Museum">{{cite web |title=Anatomy Museum |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/archive-nov-2013/Spaces/Anatomy-Museum.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=9 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110130/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/cultural/archive-nov-2013/Spaces/Anatomy-Museum.aspx|archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref> where anatomical dissections and demonstrations took place. The Anatomy Museum's collection includes casts of injuries, leather models, skins of animals from Western Australia donated to the museum in 1846,<ref>{{cite web |title=KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: Secretary's in-correspondence |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k/gb100-kclca-ka-ic/ka-ic-k1-67 |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> and casts of heads of John Bishop and Thomas Williams, the murderers in the [[London Burkers#"Italian Boy" Murder|Italian Boy's murder]] in 1831.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Italian Boy's murder discovered, 1831 |url=http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/specialcollections/charles-dickens-2/italian-boy/murder-discovered |website=Dickens, Scrooge and the Victorian poor |publisher=King's Collections|access-date=9 February 2016}}</ref> The last dissection in the Anatomy Theatre was performed in 1997.<ref name="Anatomy-Museum" /> The Anatomy Theatre and Museum was renovated and refurbished in 2009, and is now a facility for teaching, research and performance at King's.<ref>{{cite web |title=Anatomy Theatre & Museum |url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/projects/completed/atm.aspx |publisher=King's College London|access-date=9 February 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215205600/http://www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/cerch/research/projects/completed/atm.aspx|archive-date=15 February 2016 }}</ref>

Science Gallery London is a public [[science centre]] on the Guy's Campus. Admission to exhibitions and events at the centre is free.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://london.sciencegallery.com/about|title=What we do|website=Science Gallery London|access-date=30 December 2024}}</ref>