page_title: Cape Medical Museum
section_title: Exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Cape Medical Museum / Exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: An all-in shot of the available instruments in the Hospital Ward room at the Cape Medical Museum
context_page_description: The Cape Medical Museum is situated in the Old City Hospital Complex in Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa. Its exhibitions center around the medical history of the Cape and includes exhibitions on dentistry, hospital care, traditional African medicine and pharmaceutical developments. It was founded by a group of volunteers in the 1980s led by Prof J C De Villiers. Since its conception it was proclaimed as a Provincial Museum of the government of the Western Cape province.
context_section_description: The museum features several turn-of-the-century medical exhibitions, featuring a Doctor's Consulting Room, Dentist Room, Hospital Ward and Operating Theater.
  Furthermore, the museum focuses on the unique contribution of the indigenous people of the Western Cape in compiling the pharmaceutical knowledge of Doctors, and later Pharmacist, at the Cape Colony.
  In addition to its exhibitions, the museum has an activity room that allows children and school learners to learn about the human body, see touch and feel plastic models and watch information videos on the human immune system and HIV/AIDS.
caption: Hospital ward Cape Medical Museum
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