CALHN Health Museum (CALHN – Central Adelaide Local Health Network)
Description
The CALHN Health Museum has a large and extensive heritage collection of artefacts (equipment, photographs, instruments, recorded histories, doctors papers, books and documents) that reflect the history and development of health care in South Australia, (particularly those institutions within CALHN), from its colonial beginnings until the present time. CALHN organisations looked after within collection: Royal Adelaide Hospital, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, SA Pathology and SA Dental. The Heritage Office has also taken on responsibility for the broader community in preserving donated items, artefacts and documents from private institutions such as Hutt St and Calvary private hospitals and Nancarrow Collection, when no other home could be found for these significant collections.
Details
In-house (collecting records of the institution), and Collecting (collecting records external to the institution)
Critical Care; Education & Research; Emergency Care; Gastroenterology; Health Care Planning & Management; Mental Health; Midwifery; Neonatal Care; Oncology / Haematology Care; Rehabilitation / Habilitation; Renal Care
bound volumes / registers; unbound papers (documents, paper files); photographic (prints, negatives, slides, microfilm/fiche); moving image (films, videos); museum objects (e.g., badges, uniforms); library materials;
Collection holds over 15,000 objects
Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, 207-235 Hampstead Road, Lightsview SA 5085
Health.RAHHeritageOffice@sa.gov.au
https://healthmuseumsa.org.au/
services to on-site users (e.g., reading room); services to remote users (e.g., research enquiry services); website services (e.g., website presence, or access to archival holdings through web);