Spotlight: Straitjacket

Wednesday 30 September 2026

12.30pm - 12.50pm 

No.11 Queen Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1JQ

Free entry

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Join us at the Physicians’ Gallery on the last Wednesday of every month at 12.30pm for a curator-led talk exploring one of the objects on display in our Gallery.

Our topic for this talk is the straitjacket. Supported as a mark of medical progress in 1700s Europe, hated by patients and criticised by Victorian reformers - the straitjacket has a controversial history.

This 20 minute talk is free, but booking is required. The meeting point is in the Gallery.