Wanted: Home for medical museum - Canterbury historic collection faces Te Whatu Ora eviction

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Wanted: Home for medical museum - Canterbury historic collection faces Te Whatu Ora eviction

13 December 2023

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Wednesday 13 December 2023, 01:00 AM

Antique items from Christchurch’s Cotter Medical History Museum

Top left is the doctor’s bag of William Makuri Cotter, the father of museum founder Pat Cotter and top middle, the unfortunately named “VeeDee for vibratory massage” machine. The rest of the photos show esoteric medical items from the museum’s collection

Thousands of medical history items from sutures to speculums and the country’s first ECT machine could soon be homeless. Fiona Cassie visits Christchurch’s Cotter Medical History Museum

Tucked behind a waiting room for Christchurch’s anxiety clinic is a cornucopia of medical history, from exquisite microscopes to dented doctor’s bags., Cotter Museum Dancer Microscope CR Kerry Swanson , Late 19th-century Dancer microscope [Image: Kerry Swanson]

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