Organization Type: Museum Address: Military Hospital, Bruynstreet 2 City: Brussels Zip / Postal Code: 1120 Country: Belgium Telephone Number: (0) 2-264.40.97 Fax Number: (0) +32 32 2 443 18 75 Abstract: This peculiar museum is installed at the radiology department of the Military Hospital Queen Astrid. It reflects the history of the development of medical imaging. How did it all start? Who were the pioneers? How was an X-ray examination used to be performed? What does radioscopy mean? Is radiation always needed? How did ultrasound come about? The museum gives answer to all these questions and many more. A large part is free to visit, but with a guided tour, you can discover much more! The museum organizes on regular basis conferences with the history and the future of radiology and medical imaging as theme. Holdings: +/- 1700 items; Books collection: +/- 3250 items; Posters collection: +/- 160 items. For more details of our holdings, please visit our website. Contact Name, Title: Renaat Van den Broeck, Administration Contact Telephone Number: (0) 32 2 443 18 75 Contact Email Address: info@radiology-musuem.be Web Site: http://www.radiology-museum.be Collection Subject Strengths: History of Radiology, Medical Imaging Organization Type: Museum Address: Jozef Guislainstraat 43 City: Gent Zip / Postal Code: B-9000 Country: Belgium Telephone Number: (0)9 216 35 95 Fax Number: Fax: +32 (0)9 216 35 35 Abstract: There are three parts to the collection of the Museum Dr. Guislain. The first part deals with the medical history of psychiatry. The collection illustrates how primitive cultures would attribute madness to the influence of evil spirits and how, in the Middle Ages, people would be exorcised or burnt as witches, and how psychiatry grew into a veritable science in the course of the 19th centuries. The second part consists in a collection of photographs: photographs dating back as far as 1860 and picturing life in a psychiatric institution. They illustrate the history of psychiatry and the radical changes that have taken place. But they also, and more practically, illustrate the way in which people would picture mental patients and people with handicaps in the past and how they picture them today. They should get people to the point where they stop thinking in stereotypes about psychiatric patients. The third part is the outsider art collection. It has developed from a rather modest collection of works produced by people with psychic problems in to an extensive collection of outsider art. This broader term covers the work of people who are active as artists in a very personal and individual way. Holdings: The museum holds a library, over 15,000 titles, specialized in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalyse, and outsider art; Photographs 19th & 20th century. Outsider art: 20th & 21 century. Contact Name, Title: Annemie Cailliau, Coordinator Contact Telephone Number: +32 (0)9 216 35 95 Contact Email Address: info@museumdrguislain.be Web Site: http://www.museumdrguislain.be Collection Subject Strengths: History of Hospitals, History of Medicine, History of Neurology [show all 7]
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