A $63 million permanent medical museum dedicated to medicine and its impact on life has been recently opened in London. The national museum is a place for all those who are interested in medicine as well as art. An exhibit on the evolution of our understanding of the heart features the 1.5-metre-long heart of a sperm whale. The exhibit explores the symbolic power of the organ beyond its role as a biomechanical pump. The various oddities at display are Peruvian mummy, the heavy metal blade of a guillotine from the French Revolution, a gruesome collection of bone saws used by doctors through the ages, dentist's chairs, and an uncomfortable looking Chinese torture chair with a blade on the arm rest.

Curators selected the 1.5 million artifacts from the collection of Sir Henry Wellcome such as a lock of George III's hair, Napolean's toothbrush, Charles Darwin's walking stick with a skull-shaped handle, and Lord Nelson's razor.
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