TY - JOUR TI - Objects of life’s passion - the medical collections of the Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Medical University of Bialystok as a collection of individual stories AU - Grossmann, Magdalena TI - Objects of life’s passion - the medical collections of the Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Medical University of Bialystok as a collection of individual stories AB - Collecting has always entailed the passion on the part of the collector of particular artefacts. However, the exhibits gathered in the Museum of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Medical University of Bialystok appeal to visitors mainly through the stories of their owners. They reflect the life’s passions of the medical environment and form part of the huge cultural heritage of the region as well as of the Polish science. VL - Volume 24 (2016) IS - Volume 24 PY - 2017 SN - 0239-9989 C1 - 2084-3852 SP - 25 EP - 32 DO - 10.4467/20843852.OM.16.003.7436 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/opuscula-musealia/article/obiekty-zyciowej-pasji-kolekcja-medyczna-muzeum-historii-medycyny-i-farmacji-uniwersytetu-medycznego-w-bialymstoku-jako-zbior-indywidualnych-historii KW - medical museum KW - the history of medicine and pharmacy KW - Medical University of Bialystok KW - the doctors of Podlasie