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All the United States California Pomona The Southern California Medical Museum
The Southern California Medical Museum is permanently closed.

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The Southern California Medical Museum

A small medical museum with a recreated doctor's office.

Pomona, California

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A collection of medical artifacts, medical photograph, a medical library dating back to 1843, and a recreated doctor's office from the 1920s, complete with vintage medicines, roll-top desk, microscope and medical bag.

A lecture held in the museum entitled, "Quackery, or Not?" displayed a curious cure-all from the same era, a metal cylinder known as the Oxygenator. Though it cured nothing, it was true to its name: it had nothing inside it but air.

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The Southern California Medical Museum is located at Western University of Health Sciences Nursing Science Center 350 S Garey Ave, Pomona, CA 91766. The museum is not open daily. Advance reservations are required. Call (909) 273-6000 ext. 105.

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The Southern California Medical Museum
350 S Garey Ave
Pomona, California, 91766
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34.056288, -117.749858
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