4 Jun 2023

Jennifer Sutton: Visiting your heart in a museum

From Sunday Morning, 9:35 am on 4 June 2023

Imagine how it would be to visit a museum, and see your own heart in a display case.

That's what's happened to Jennifer Sutton at the Hunterian Museum in London, 16 years after the heart she was born with was removed as she underwent transplant surgery.

Heart transplant patient Jennifer Sutton comes face to face with her own heart at the Wellcome Collection's Heart Exhibition in central London, 04 September 2007. Jennifer, 23, had a heart transplant at the Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, on 04 June 2007, and gave her heart to the Wellcome Collection to increase public awareness about organ donation and Restrictive Cardiomyopathy, the disease that could have ended her life. (Photo by SHAUN CURRY / AFP)

Photo: SHAUN CURRY

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