Conservation and restoration of 10 three-dimensional carved and painted wooden panels, representing various medical interventions in Obstetrics from the collection of the Casa Hermes Foundation*.
*The history of the Casa Hermes Foundation begins with a doctor from Aveiro, Hermes de Oliveira Castanhas (1932-2015), who dedicated his life to gynecology and obstetrics, as well as to collecting. He organized the first exhibitions dedicated to the History of Medicine and, later, at the Dr. Hermes House-Museum, the family's private museum in Aveiro, since the 1990s. In 2018, after his death, the family established the Casa Hermes Foundation, created to continue the patrimonial legacy represented by the medical collection and, at the same time, to promote, develop and support initiatives of a cultural, scientific and social nature in the fields of protection and promotion of historical, artistic and natural heritage, education, research, health, disease prevention and control, promotion of entrepreneurship, innovation and development, charity and social solidarity. In 2020, the new Museum of Medicine and Health – Skope – began to be planned, an ambitious project born under the auspices of the Casa Hermes Foundation and based on the collection of the Dr. Hermes House-Museum. ©
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Acknowledgements Casa Hermes Foundation ©~ Museum of Medicine and Health Skope
