Hong Kong medical museum offers visitors chance to use mock surgery tools as part of showcase charting progress of modern medicine
- Showcase titled ‘Modern Medicine’ will allow visitors to experience what it may be like to perform surgery and includes exhibit covering fields of obstetrics and gynaecology
- Visitors can also check out past and present medical instruments, which show how far medical science has developed, museum says
A new exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences aims to chart the progress of modern medicine and generate more appreciation for the field, a member of the organising team has said.
The showcase, titled “Modern Medicine”, includes interactive elements and displays featuring various medical instruments. It also features a special focus exhibit covering the fields of obstetrics and gynaecology.
“By creating this exhibition, we really hope people will learn that there are reasons and evidence for what they hear when they visit doctors,” exhibition working group leader Dr Rose Mak Ha-ling said on Thursday.
She also said organisers hoped to map out the development of modern medicine and foster interest in the subject among residents.
Mak is a director at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences Society, which operates the museum.
According to Mak, the exhibition offers something for everyone, with elements catering to families, school pupils, medical students and even retired doctors.
Chief among the showcase was a display of past and present medical instruments that showed how far the medical sciences had developed, she said.