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Medical Museums

Sacramento, California

Museum of Medical History Sacramento

A fascinating and comprehensive look at the evolution of medical practice in the Sacramento Valley since the mid-1800s.

Leiden, Netherlands

Anatomisch Museum Leiden

Some of the specimens on display at the Leiden University Medical Center have been helping educate physicians since the 17th century.

St. Augustine, Florida

Disease Vector Education Center

The United States' only educational center specializing in disease vectors and mosquitoes.

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Podcast: A Journey Through Death With Joanna Ebenstein

What does our fascination with mortality reveal about who we are?

The Podcast Team March 29, 2024

Basel, Switzerland

Anatomical Museum Basel

A journey through every aspect of the human body.

Saranac Lake, New York

Saranac Laboratory Museum

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

Cape Town, South Africa

Heart of Cape Town Museum

The first successful human heart transplant is depicted through wax figures at the hospital where it the surgery took place.

Toulouse, France

Musée de l'Histoire de la Médecine (Museum of the History of Medicine)

A journey through the history of medicine throughout the centuries.

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Podcast: The Hand Collection

A museum that gives new meaning to the term "hands-on."

The Podcast Team June 22, 2023

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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