Natasha McEnroe

Natasha McEnroe is General Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of London in Burlington House. Until 2024, Natasha spent seven years at the Science Museum Group, where she was Keeper of Medicine at the Science Museum in South Kensington, London. During her tenure she delivered the new Medicine Galleries, immediately followed by the vast COVID-19 Collecting Project.

Previously, she was Director of the Florence Nightingale Museum, and prior to this was Museum Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy and Curator of the Galton Collection at University College London. From 1997 – 2007, she was Curator of Dr Johnson’s House in London’s Fleet Street, and has also worked for the National Trust and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Natasha's research interests focus on 18th and 19th-century medical humanities.

Natasha was co-editor of 'The Hospital in the Oatfield – The Art of Nursing in the First World War' (2014); 'The Tyranny of Treatment: Samuel Johnson, His Friends and Georgian Medicine' (2003); and editor of 'Medicine: An Imperfect Science' (2019) and co-editor of 'The Medicine Cabinet' (2019).