A new gallery exploring modern-day surgery opens at Thackray Museum in Leeds on Tuesday 27 May.
Fantastic Plastic is an interactive gallery that allows families to explore how plastic has helped to revolutionise modern-day surgery.
Interactive exhibits include letting visitors decide what scent would be best to put onto a plastic face mask.
Thackray takes visitors on a journey through time, from the primitive surgery of Victorian times right up to the present day. Almost half of all Victorian patients died during surgery. Families can also take a trip through Leeds in 1842 to find out how much it has changed.
Afterwards, visitors can learn about how the experience of childbirth has changed since 1890 through real life stories. When Queen Victoria came to the throne, one in 30 mothers died during childbirth. Today it is extremely rare as medical procedures have advanced.
Thackray offers a fun and informative day out for the whole family and is a great opportunity for children to play at doctors and nurses for real.
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