East Grinstead Museum

Home to the official archive of the Guinea Pig Club — the extraordinary mutual support society of 649 Allied aircrew who underwent pioneering reconstructive surgery under Sir Archibald McIndoe at East Grinstead’s Queen Victoria Hospital during WWII. The permanent ‘Rebuilding Bodies and Souls’ exhibition tells how McIndoe’s revolutionary techniques transformed plastic surgery, and how East Grinstead became ‘The Town That Didn’t Stare’.