Specialized Libraries and Collections

These are specialized collections in the history of medicine and public health, but this list does include some broader collections. Click on the entry for detailed descriptions of holdings, hours, locations, contact information and travel grant if applicable. 

Browse grants and fellowships here and see major world collections here.

 Anesthesia

• Wood Library Museum of Anesthesiology (Illinois, USA)
  
• Anaesthesia Heritage Centre (London, United Kingdom)

• Edward Worth Library (Dublin, Ireland)
  

• Archives of Archie Cochrane at the University of Cardiff & Library Special Collections (Penarth, Wales, United Kingdom)
  

• Center for the History of Family Medicine (Kansas, USA)
  

Homeopathy and Naturopathic Medicine

• Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Bibliothek Institut für Geschichte der Medizin der Robert Bosch Stiftung (Stuttgart, Germany)
  
• Lloyd Library and Museum, Historical Research Center for the Natural Health Movement (Cincinnati, Ohio)
  

• Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Health Sciences Library & Archives (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• St Bartholomew’s Hospital Museum & Archives (London, United Kingdom)
  
• St. Michael’s Hospital Archives (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Sunnybrook Hospital Archives (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Archives (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Toronto East General Hospital Museum and Archives (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Royal London Hospital Museum & Archives (London, United Kingdom)
  

• Center for the History of Microbiology/ASM Archives, a.k.a. CHOMA (Washington, USA)
  
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library & Archives (New York, USA)
  

• Gillies Archives from Queen Mary’s Hospital (London, United Kingdom)
  
• Service Historique de la Défense (Paris, France)
  

• Margaret Allemang Centre for the History of Nursing (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Miss Margaret Robins Archives, Women’s College Hospital (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Barbara Bates Center for the Study of the History of Nursing (Philadelphia, USA)
  
• Centre Catherine de Saint-Augustin (Québec City, Québec, Canada)
  
• Royal College of Nursing Library & Heritage Centre (London, United Kingdom)
  

• Collections of the University Medical Centre, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Göttingen, Germany)
  
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Resource Center (Washington, USA)
  
• Sophia Smith Collection, Women’s History Archives (Massachusetts, USA)
  

Pharmacy

• Muzeum Farmacji (Cracow, Poland)
  
• Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (London, United Kingdom)
  

• Royal College of Physicians Museum, Library & Archives (London, United Kingdom)
  
• Royal Society of Medicine Library & Archives (London, United Kingdom)
  
• Royal College of General Practitioners, Museum and Archives (London, United Kingdom)
  
• Semmelweiss Museum, Library and Archive of the History of Medicine (Budapest, Hungary)
  

• Bethlem Museum Of The Mind (Beckenham, United Kingdom)
  
• Freud Museum (London, United Kingdom)
  
• Mackie Family History of Neuroscience Collection (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
  
• Psychiatric Survivor Archives of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  

Red Cross

• British Red Cross Museum & Archives (London, United Kingdom)
  

• Ontario Jewish Archives (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Salvation Army Archives (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• United Church of Canada Archives (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Diocese of Toronto, Anglican Church of Canada Archives (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Presbyterian Church in Canada, Archives and Records Office (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Archives of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  

• American College of Surgeons Archives (Chicago, USA)
  
• Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Museum & Library (Edinburgh, United Kingdom – Scotland)
  

• Jenner Museum/Dr Jenner’s House (Gloucestershire, United Kingdom)
  

• McLoughlin Library (Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
  
• Musée Fragonard de l’École nationale vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort (Paris, France)