Devon & Exeter Medical Heritage Trust, Exeter Community Centre, Exeter (2026)

We aim to create diverse and engaging experiences for our visitors, share the stories of the objects in our collection and get people in touch with heritage.

20/04/2026

Much Ado About Medicine – SW Shakespeare Festival

Saturday 25th April, Exeter Community Centre, 11am - 2pm (drop-in!)

A drop-in display exploring health, disease, and medicine in Shakespeare and Elizabethan society!

We are open for visitors to see a small display of historic objects and some behind-the-scenes work on objects by our volunteers and collection coordinator.

This is held as a free drop-in session but donations are always appreciated. We have a small room for display and a work room, so would recommend about 20-30 minutes to visit.

We are happy to chat with you about what we are doing, why, and show you some of the work being done to preserve and safeguard our objects.

We are part of the SW Shakespeare Festival. Alongside Exeter Cathedral, Devon and Exeter Institution, Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, St Nicholas Priory, VisitExeter, Exeter Phoenix, RAMM and Wild Thyme!

08/10/2025

We will be part of the Devon in the Twenties festival, on the 11th and 16th October!

11th: Mint Methodist Church, Fayre and Performance, tickets on the Festival website (£5)

16th: Exeter Central Library, Health and Hospitals - Exhibition and short talks with Prof. David Radstone, Prof. Sir. Denis Pereira Gray, and Dr Julia Neville! Tickets also available on the Festival website.

Find tickets and details:
https://devontwentiesfestival.co.uk/events/exeter-in-the-1920s/

10/09/2025

We’re almost ready for the exhibition! We’ve been building display cases and designing banners all week…

Opening on Friday at 11am , please come along and join us!

Our interns and volunteers have worked hard to bring you objects that we’ve never had on display, including the oldest x-ray tubes in Exeter, as seen in the second image! These fragile glass tubes were handmade in the 1890s.

‘Building and Rebuilding the Body’ - our free, co-curated exhibition for
11am-4pm, Friday and Saturday this week.

Image 1: sneak peak of our interpretation banners
Image 2: handmade glass x-ray tubes from the 1890s, used for Exeter’s first x-ray demonstration
Image 3 and 4: Building the display case to house our x-ray tubes!

21/08/2025

As part of Heritage Open Days, we will be open with a free exhibition at Exeter Community Centre!
11am-4pm on 12th and 13th September - "Building and Re-Building the Body"
We've worked with our University of Exeter interns to co-curate a small exhibition, exploring how our bodies are seen, understood, and repaired. With a bit of a twist on this year's 'Architecture' theme, join us to chat and see displays of items from the collection created by our volunteers.
How have we learned to understand the body, and how has it been taught throughout the years? How do we rebuild ourselves?
We'll have post-mortem kits, the earliest xray tubes used in Exeter, orthopaedic supports including the innovative Exeter Hip, and delicate surgical instruments.
https://www.heritageopendays.org.uk/submission-event/building-and-rebuilding-the-body-exhibition.html

Address

Exeter Community Centre
Exeter
EX43RG

Website

http://www.demht.org/

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