Welcome to the Thackray.
We’re a place of big ideas and even bigger thinking. We explore and debate medicine and health. We learn from great stories of the past and are always looking to the future and what it could bring.
Mothers in Lockdown
Online Exhibition
The 12 portraits were taken by Fran Monks as part of a research project by the Huddersfield Centre for Research in Education and Society at the University of Huddersfield.
Did you know… Sara Josephine Baker was the physician who, in the early 1900s, discovered why children in New York slums had a higher mortality rate than soldiers in the 1st World War?
Health and wellbeing
We understand about the importance mindfulness and wellbeing. Our collections provide exciting incites into the heritage of healthcare and the latest innovations in medicine, we also value the opportunity to share creative ideas addressing mental health.
