A healthy interest in medicine

Families visiting the new permanent exhibition at Dundee Science Centre, Medical Marvels, will find a body of work showcasing the city’s position at the leading edge of medical advancement

Medical Marvels is the new permanent exhibition at Dundee Science Centre. Celebrating Dundee’s links to the latest in medical technologies, it opened earlier this week – just in time to keep curious kids and their adults entertained during the summer holidays.

The exhibition has been several months in the making and regular visitors to the centre will find a space that has been transformed to provide a truly interactive experience through high-tech exhibits. Medical Marvels is inspired by Dundee’s role at the forefront of medical innovation and visitors will enter the exhibition space by walking past a medical curiosities wall that includes displays of genuine 19th Century surgical toolkits and even a glass-eye inserter. These fascinating and slightly macabre objects, which are on loan from the Tayside Medical History Museum, will make you grateful for the developments in modern medicine.

Moving into the main exhibition, families are invited to interact with, touch, feel and try out the amazing displays. From 3D models developed in conjunction with the biomedical engineering department at Dundee University that allow you to see the layers of the human body to a virtual anatomy table, the insight into the human body and medical innovation will wow young minds and prove just as fascinating for grown-up visitors.

Find out how procedures such as endoscopy have been improved and see the latest solution to this challenging procedure, which is being developed by a research physician in Dundee.

Children can explore some of the incredible innovations in surgery that

Medical Marvels offers visitors the chance to learn, and have fun, via lots of interactive displays and shows.