A man was today becoming the first living person to donate his heart to a museum.
Robert Moss, 61, from Driffield, East Yorkshire, underwent a heart transplant in August this year at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge.
He then agreed to allow his old heart to go on public display after being asked by hospital staff, who had been approached by London's Science Museum.
The old heart, three times the usual size due to childhood rheumatic fever and fitted with a mechanical valve, will go on show in the museum's Who Am I? section in the new Wellcome wing.
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