As a person with little medical knowledge the museum was a lot like reading a textbook. It was a nice amount of curated information but not really a museum in the traditional sense, in my opinion.
Hidden treasure of Chicago! Wonderful little museum. Make sure you go on Tuesdays if you’re from Illinois so you can go for free. It’s not a big museum, probably about an hour worth of time. Unless your looking to hang out at the table in the library to work.
This museum had a lot of reading about medical procedures, research, and issues. It is great to get a detailed overview of the history of medicine, and was an interesting read!
Wowsa this place is COOL. I had no idea it existed and I came here to see an exhibit of paintings made from blood. Gory, I know but they were gorgeous pieces of art. Entrance is 15$ and there are 4 floors with historical and literary information about surgery from around the world as well as lots of exhibits. Nice to take your nerdy teen to!
The issue I had was that I usually expect a museum with items on display to talk about those items. For example, I would have liked to have heard more about the tongs they had on display that they said were used to help pull babies out during birth. They could have said not about how they were used, why they would be needed, and how often they would be needed for example. A lot of other items on display had even less information. I felt like the museum would be very interesting if I was a medical doctor who had some baseline knowledge about the tools.
Worth a visit on a lazy afternoon.
Pretty expensive for the majority of the museum being pictures on the wall. It was interesting seeing all the old tools used and reading about the history of trial and error humanity has gone through to get our medical technology to where it is today. But I guess I was expecting more... especially for the price. There is a lot of stairs and rooms full of pictures and tools and things to read and that's about it.
It's an okay museum. Not nearly as gory as you'd want it to be, but has fascinating old tools, some Florence Nightengale stuff. The old apothecary set up is rather interesting to see what they used to hand to people as medicine.
The house itself is fascinating and formerly owned by a Chicago socialite (she did nothing for her money). The gift store has some cool stuff- cute organ plushies, fancy cuff links, not the usual array of gift store garbage.
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