‍Apollo Magazine: "London’s most gruesome museum is back – and weirder than ever."

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New Scientist: "Offering a unique peek into the science of a bygone time, these anatomical specimens from the Hunterian Museum in London tell a story of medical discovery and curiosity through the ages."

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Nature Magazine: "The London museum is a treasure chest of medical specimens both fascinating and ghoulish — now with a renewed focus on questions about how its collections came to be…Another of [Dawn] Kemp’s guiding principles was to emphasize surgery as a human story and to feature patients’ experiences. This shines in the museum’s final galleries, which explore modern surgery in brightly lit rooms reminiscent of an operating theatre."

Japan Journals: "The Hunterian Museum...has been reimagined with sophistication by an award-winning design studio…While perplexed by various specimens such as bones and internal organs affected by different organisms and diseases, deformed puppies, fetuses, I am overwhelmed by Hunter's insatiable quest for biology and medicine. Don't take it lightly as a small museum located in a corner of the Medical Association building. There is also an interactive exhibition that can be operated with images and touch panels, and I forgot the passage of time as I watched it."

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Il Giornale D’Italia: "a Wunderkammer of bones that become art...[The Hunterian Museum is] re-proposing itself to the general public with an ambitious exhibition by Casson Mann studio…Loaded with suggestions, one is likely to leave the museum with an altered perception of one's own body. Certainly, with a greater openness towards the wonders of science and art that surgery and his world open up."

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The Lancet journal: "The visitor is taken on a more or less chronological journey through Hunter's life and career, and the development of surgery as a discipline. This curatorial approach may seem a little old-fashioned compared to, say, Bethlem Hospital's Museum of the Mind, London, UK, which takes a thematic approach to the history of mental health, and centres the lived experience of patients. However, the Hunterian's approach is justified by the convincing narrative it builds of accumulative technical sophistication alongside increasing surgical daring...The Hunterian Museum began as a collection of tissues, organs, and instruments; its new role as a collector of narratives will prove equally valuable to the profession. Established or aspiring surgeons, curious members of the public, and all those who have ever stood—or fainted—in an operating theatre will all find it well worth a visit."

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Look Up London: "The last thing on display is the preserved heart of a woman called Jennifer...I found the combination of real voices alongside the lonely organ oddly emotional. It was a poignant way to end the experience."

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