International Museum of Surgical Science, 1524 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago
Inhibition: This could be dull.
Betty’s Response: You’re dull.
Experience: This past Friday I visited Chicago’s Museum of Surgical Science.
$15 ticket, Student group rates available.
Open Tues-Fri 10-4 and Sat-Sun 10-5
What I didn’t know: Originally the home of Eleanor Robinson Countiss, daughter of a Diamond Match Company executive, is now the historic home of the Museum of Surgical Science. Changing hands in 1950 the museum opened in 1954 under the new owner/director Dr. Max Thorek. The French chateau, inspired by and built in likeness of Versailles’ Le Petit Trianon, now houses four floors that exhibit…
A recreated turn of the century pharmacy…
Pharmacy weighing artifacts…
Walls of Patent Medicines…
Opthalmology history and artifacts…
In the Polio Exhibit an iron lung, that still operates, used in the 1930’s-1950’s…
A sculpture hall, “Hall of the Immortals,” honoring those who made major advances in medicine…
Original hearing-aid devices…
A History of original Radiology equipment…
A physically accurate bust of Russian born French wrester, Maurice Tillet, also know as The French Angel. Afflicted by Acromegaly at age 17, a bone disease that results in bone overgrowth and thickening, Tillet eventually abandoned dreams of becoming a Lawyer due to his appearance.
Bone “straightening” artifacts along side images of children impacted by them.
Exhibition, “Inhospitable,” by artist Raeleen Kao.
Exhibition, “Inhospitable,” by artist Raeleen Kao
Exhibition, “The Age of Spontaneous Generation,” by artist Lauren Levato Coyne.
Exhibitions also include, Surgicogenomics, a hall of murals and paintings, a library, a Japan Hall of Fame, the Taiwan Room, a Health Career Center, a Prenatal room exhibiting preserved remains of infants at various growth stages and deformities, Enduring and alleviating Pain, Spinal and Cardiovascular surgery, The evolution of Nursing, and two Contemporary Artists in Residency Exhibitions that are in-part funded by the Illinois Arts Council.
Not dull at ALL!!! Many thanks to all the information I collected from the museum’s website, on-site gallery box office, and the gallery attendant.
So for now Betty and I are off and extending to you an invitation to…SHOW ME WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW!!
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