MUSEUM OF MEDICINE, CRETE

Places of healing

People, buildings and places in a linear relationship with historical time and with a perpetual goal of healing and health. A course from the early days of Minoan Medicine to the practice of Medical Science in Asclepieia, guesthouses of monasteries, Spitalia, Pananio Hospital, Spinalonga, sanatoriums and the first treatment centres to modern Hospitals. More

The human body, the senses and the brain

The architectural organization of the structure of the human body, from the anatomy of upright posture and gait to the plasticity of the brain, is at the center of the interest of modern man. The admiration for the achievements of human brain triggers the need for discovering its morphology. More

From herbs to medicines

Medicinal plants hold a special place in the history of cultures. The way of studying and exploiting plants over the centuries was based on the special relationship of man with nature, the biochemical interaction of humans and plants as well as the holding perceptions of health and disease. More

Medicine, arts & letters

Looking back at Homer's poetry and Thomas Mann's writing, observing the paintings of Rembrandt and Munch, watching Chekhov's plays and finally with the very recent comics in Medicine (graphic medicine), we find that disease and medicine are fundamental elements of Literature and Arts. Man’s perpetual struggle to prevail over finite and time is a point of intersection between Medicine and Art or Literature defining the relationship between them. Τhe fact that several physicians have been depicted in history as subjects of Art (in Literature or iconography) is rather secondary. More.

Instruments and medical technology

The form of a surgical tool helps us understand a culture and a time as much as the outcome of a battle, the history of papistry or an emperor’s signature. This is another reason to classify the history of medicine in the most emphatic way within the context of the history of culture. More.