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Stonestreet Museum
Rockville, Maryland

Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.
Copenhagen, Denmark

Martha and Marie

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.
Tansy (left) and pennyroyal were two toxic herbs used in the 19th century to induce abortions.
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The 19th-Century Woman's Secret Guide to Birth Control

Shared books, homemade concoctions, and a whisper network thwarted Gilded Age efforts to limit women’s access to health care.
Emily Cataneo April 22, 2022
medical museums

Podcast: Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team March 18, 2022
In the Mütter Museum's renovated exhibit, each skull is now labeled first with the name of the individual (if known). Previously, such information was considered secondary to ailments and cause of death.
medical museums

Darwin’s Squeaky Beans and 139 Victorian Skulls: Our Favorite 2021 ‘Secret Lives of Museums’ Stories

Let’s sneak into where museum visitors can’t.
Sarah Durn December 28, 2021
medical museums

Podcast: Centers for Disease Control Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team December 2, 2021
The Hyrtl Skull Collection isn't just medical history. Scientists continue to study the bones today.
anatomy museums

The Eventful Afterlife of a Crowd of 19th-Century Skulls

Philadelphia’s famed anatomy showplace, the Mütter Museum, gets a facelift.
April White October 18, 2021
medical museums

Podcast: Good Vibrations Antique Vibrator Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team September 13, 2021
medical museums

Podcast: Museum of Quackery and Medical Fraud

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 15, 2021
Porto, Portugal

Museum of the Central Hospital of Porto

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.
An anatomical engraving from 1872.
libraries

Seeking the Truth Behind Books Bound in Human Skin

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.
Megan Rosenbloom January 29, 2021
Displays at the Weaver Dental Museum include a jumble of dentures.
Itinerary

6 Fascinating Medical Marvels in Pennsylvania

50 States of Wonder
Sam O'Brien
Video • Wonder From Home

Show & Tell: See a Collection of Dissected Skulls and Medical Marvels

14:07
A view of an exhibit in the atrium.
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Sindecuse Museum of Dentistry

This museum explores the history and development of dentistry and dental technology in Michigan.
The exterior of Raeapteek
Tallinn, Estonia

Raeapteek

The oldest continuously operating pharmacy in Europe.
Museo de Anatomopatología
Mexico City, Mexico

Museo de Anatomopatología (Museum of Pathological Anatomy)

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.
Museum interior.
Guthrie, Oklahoma

Oklahoma Frontier Drugstore Museum

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.
Video • Object of Intrigue

What Exactly Is a Bezoar?

3:13