Manon S. Parry is Professor of Medical and Nursing History at VU Amsterdam and Associate Professor of American Studies and Public History at the University of Amsterdam. She is an historian of medicine and exhibition curator, specializing in the uses of the humanities for health and wellbeing. As a former Curator in the History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, USA, she has curated gallery and online exhibitions on a wide range of topics, including global health and human rights, disability in the American Civil War, and medicinal and recreational drug use, with budgets ranging from $14,500 to $3 million. Traveling versions of her exhibitions have visited more than 300 venues in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Guam, the Netherlands, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. She has served in formal and informal advisory roles for exhibition projects on health and medicine at the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia; the National Archives and Records Administration and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; MUCEM, the Museum of European Civilisations, Marseille; Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden; and Vesalius Museum, Leuven.  She is co-editor, with Leni van Goidsenhoeven of Disability Heritage: Participatory and Transformative Engagement (Routledge, Key Issues in Heritage Studies, forthcoming 2026) and is currently completing a book titled Human Curiosities: The Enduring Appeal of Medical Museums. 

(Medical and Nursing history, Public history, Amercian Studies)