Health Sciences
Bionic Ear Archive
This collection of documentation relates to the development of the Australian Bionic Ear or cochlear implant, which is the result of pioneering research commenced by Professor Graeme Clark in the late 1960s at the University of Melbourne's Department of Otolaryngology. For further information see the website of the Bionic Ear Institute, an affiliate of the University of Melbourne, located in East Melbourne.
The University of Melbourne Archives also hold material relating to the Bionic Ear project.
Harry Brookes Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology
Contains more than 12,000 specimens, of which more than 3,000 are on display at any one time, complementing the Faculty's curricula. Historical displays include a series of bushrangers' death masks. The museum is open to current and former students and staff for study and research.
The Henry Forman Atkinson Dental Museum
Documents the history of dentistry and dental education in Victoria. It includes historic records and archival material, as well as dental surgery, workroom and laboratory equipment dating from the 18th century to the present day.
Medical History Museum
Houses a research collection which documents the history of the University of Melbourne medical school, its teaching hospitals and achievements of its graduates and, more broadly, the history of medical practice in Victoria. The collection consists of medical, surgical and scientific instruments, archival photographs, academic certificates, personal papers and records, commemorative medals, art works and a fully equipped relocated 19th-century London pharmacy.
Medical Rare Books (previously located in the Brownless Biomedical Library)
This collection numbers approximately 1,850 volumes and covers the vast range of subjects that constitute the history of western medicine, dating from the first medical literature that emerged from the printing presses of the 16th century to the rare, privately published or limited editions of the 20th century. Most items were published before 1850. All are denoted by the prefix UniM SpC/Med on the library catalogue. Shelved in Special Collections in the Baillieu Library, requests for items may be made online. Orders will be accepted up to 30 minutes prior to delivery time. Items will be transferred for reading in the Cultural Collections Reading Room on level 3 of the Baillieu Library.