Quackery & Discovery loan kit (2024 - 2025 school year)

The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh has a collection of Museum in a Box loan kits which are available for loan to schools in Edinburgh and surrounding areas.

The Quackery and Discovery loan kit is a challenging collection about medical discovery. At times throughout history, medical pretenders known as ‘quacks’ attempted to sell items to ailing patients that appeared to be medical, but were actually useless, or even dangerous! Students will be required to think critically about whether objects in the Q&D loan kit are the result of medical innovation or mere quackery. Objects include a ceramic phrenology bust, cupping cups, a bleeding bowl (with a leech!), and a sample of a carbolic suture from the 1800s.

Quackery & Discovery contains three different activity packs, a folder of archive materials and 12 different objects.

For a full list of box contents and resources, follow this link - https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/quackery-and-discovery

All Museum in a Box loan kits from The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh are designed to be used with students from p5 to S2.

Quackry & Discovery is available to loan during the follow three loan periods:

1. Summer - Christmas

• Pick up week: Monday 12th August 2024 to Friday 16th August 2024
• Drop-off week: Monday 2nd December 2024 to Friday 6th December 2024

2. January - Easter

• Pick up week: Monday 6th January 2025 to Friday 10th January 2025
• Drop off week: Monday 31st March 2025 to Friday 4th April 2025

3. Easter - Summer

• Pick up week: Monday 21st April 2025 to Friday 25th April 2025
• Drop off week: Monday 23rd June 2025 to Friday 27th June 2025

After you book through Eventbrite you will be contacted via email to complete and sign our loan contract, to choose a pick-up date and time, and to choose a drop-off date and time.

All loan kits must be pick-up up from the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ.

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