Here follows a, not complete, list of all the people who have helped the Museum develop from the small museum with 5,000 visitors open only 3 half days a week in 1989 to the current museum with 25,000 visitors open 7 days a week. For credits for creating this web page click here.
The museum was founded by Lord Brock and is administered by the Lord Brock Memorial Trust. Lord Brock is remembered as a pioneer of open-heart surgery. Fomer chairs of the Trust include: Lord McColl and Sir Norman Browse.
The Trustees of the Lord Brock Memorial Trust are:
- Mr David Firmin, Chairman
- Sir Barry Jackson, Deputy Chairman
- Giles Hacking, C G Hacking & Sons Ltd, Treasurer
- Mr Martin Jourdan, Consultant Surgeon. Guy's Hospital
- Stella Mason, Keeper Of The College Collections, Royal College of Surgeons
- John Monoogian, The Honourable Company Of Gray's Inn
- Tony West, Director Of Pharmacy
- Prof. Simon Howell,
King's College, London
- Mr Robert Mason,
Guys' and St Thomas NHS Foundatino Trust
- Prof. Kevin Burnand, King's College, London
- Porf. John Rees , King's College, London
- Rev Anna Macham,
Southwark Cathedral
The Museum is staffed by (in alphabetic order):
- Stewart Caine
- Kirsty Chilton
- Stevie Edge
- Kevin Flude
- Karen Howell
- Valentina Lari
- Julie Wakefield
The Museum is managed by Cultural Heritage Resources.
The Museum is helped by Marion Box, Jo Holt, Colin and Marita Parr, Connie and Hetty Flude. Museum staff, volunteers and associates who have helped in the past include: Mike Stone, Michael Tambini, Tony Clayton, Mike Bardell, Marietta Ryan, Jose Bea, Alistair Simmonds, Jo Hall, Paul Herbert, Lucy Davies, Felicity Horada, Iris Boening, Julia Grollman and Leonie Hannan. Julie Carter, Jean Haynes, Hugh Jenkins, Sarah Chaney, Katie Edwardsand Chris Sams.
The museum's robust health is also due to help from the Charitable Trust of St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals; our landlords - the Cathedral Group, our former Landlords Butcher, Robinson & Staples Ltd., part of The Chapter Group; the Barbara Whatmore Foundation; Southwark Heritage Association, the Borough High Street Foundation, MLA, London (and in all its earlier manifestations (AMSSEE, SEMS, LMA, ALM, London, MLA, London) and the London Renaissance Hub.
The Museums displays are maintained by the Museum staff with particular thanks to the Curator Karen Howell. The theatre was originally restored thanks to generous donations from the Wolfson Trust. The present displays originated with the aid of grants from Gerard House, Butcher, Robinson & Staples Ltd.,The Barbara Whatmore Trust, the Pilgrim Trust, Bayer UK, the Raynes Foundation, the Manifold Trust, Price Waterhouse, Area Museum Service South East England and the Special Trustees of Guy's and St Thomas's. The Museum has also benefited by donations from the Wellcome Institute, Wicked London Publications and South Thames Training & Enterprise Council. These displays were originally created by Kevin Flude and Paul Herbert; assisted by Mike Bardill, Mike Barrel, Tony Clayton, Daynes Design Partnership, Hugh Jenkins, Barrie Lees, Alan Powell, Malcolm Russell, Dave Scott, Marion O'Shea, Poppy Singer, Michael Tambini, Roger Taylor and Philip Wilson. These displays have been substantially remodelled under the direction of Karen Howell and with the help of staff mentioned above.
The herbal display at the Museum is the work of Karen Howell. Education work at the Museum has been helped by grants from the Department of Education and Skills (DfEE DfES), the Foyle Foundation, PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Pool of London. The Front Entrance display of foilage was supported by the London Museums Agency and the Pool of London Partnership.
For credits for creating this web page click here. For the original archive page click here.
