The Western Australian Medical Museum is located in Harvey House at King Edward Memorial Hospital on the corner of Barker and Railway roads in the Perth suburb of Subiaco.If you would like to arrange a group tour, please give us a call on (08) 6458 1506 or send us an email to wamedicalmuseum@health.wa.gov.au
Our museum occupies the heritage-listed Harvey House, which became Perth's first maternity hospital in 1916. Our many exhibitions include:
- An operating theatre
- Dental workshop and surgery
- Iron lung and polio display
- Early hospital artefacts and equipment
- Aboriginal medicine
- Hands-on electronic equipment
- King Edward Memorial Hospital's original X-ray Department
- Pathology and physiotherapy
- The Royal Flying Doctor
- Nursing During Wartime
- General Practitioner's Surgery
- Ophthalmology Display
- Early pharmaceuticals
- Chloe, our oldest exhibit!
