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Nursing History - Travel
This is a series about travel to places of special interest
to nursing history buffs. Please submit your travel stories and photos
to Jan for future features!
Travel Features:
Library of the Archiginnasio, Bologna,
Italy
St. Margaret Church, East Wellow,
Derbyshire
Selimiye Barracks , Florence Nightingale
Museum, Istanbul
World
War II Sites in Philippines
Listing of museums of interest to nursing
history:
The Civil War Museum in Bardstown, KY,
310 E. Broadway, Bardstown, KY 40004
This museum has a display on Women of the Civil War. "Women of the Civil
War Museum is in a separate building devoted entirely to the role women
played in the war. The collection portrays women as nurses, spies, soldiers,
plantaiton and factory workers of the period." A manikin dressed as a
nurse is standing by a wounded soldier. He is lying on a wooden bed that
has holes poked in it (and I've forgotten what the holes are for! I will
check and get back to you on that.) There are writeups about a number
of other nurses.
www.civil-war-museum.org
Crile Hospital Archives - Healing Others: Healing
Ourselves, A videohistory of the African American Nurse
The current project of the archives of this former Army Hospital is to
document the history of the African American Nurse. They are eliciting
materials to further enhance the collection.
E-mail Dr. Banks
The Crile Archives Western Campus C.C.C.
11000 Pleasant Valley Road
Parma, OH 44130
Phone: 216-987-5594 Fax: 216-987-5050
Crile Hospital
Archives -Current Project
Florence Nightingale Museum Trust
Built on the site of St. Thomas Hospital this museum is dedicated to preserving
the legacy of Nightingale. Open Tuesday - Sunday.
2 Lambeth Palace Road
London SE1, 7EW UK
Phone: 00 44 171 620 0374
Fax: 00 44 171 928 1760
E-mail Curator@florence-nightingale.co.uk
www.florence-nightingale.co.uk
Seelye Mansion in Abilene, KS,
Contains a patent medicine museum with many artifacts of the A.B. Seelye
Medical Company. Founded in 1890, more than 100 products were sold over
a 14-state area. Best known cure-alls included Wasa-Tusa, Fro-zona, and
Ner-vena." Seelye Mansion
1105 N. Buckeye
Abilene, KS
785-263-1084
www.seelyemansion.com
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine
48 East Patrick Street
Frederick, Maryland
301-695-1864
www.civilwarmed.org
Hours Monday-Saturday 10 am - 5 pm, Sunday 11 am - 5 pm
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is the premiere repository of
exhibits and artifacts devoted to the technological and procedural advances
made in the medical field between 1861-1865. These changes occurred in
the midst of tremendous social and economic upheaval. The Museum is committed
to effectively weaving the narrative of suffering soldiers, caregivers,
their families and the dramatic and innovative developments in medical
treatment. The Museum utilizes its collection to heighten public awareness
of the modern medical practices that originated on the battlefields and
in the hospitals of this once divided country. Interactive educational
programs, exhibits, seminars and lectures provide the knowledge that Civil
War medicine connects us not only to our past, but is the scientific and
historical link to our present and our future.
Musee des Hospitalieres de l'Hotel-Dieu de Montreal
Located next to the Hotel-Dieu Hospital, this museum tells the story of
the foundation of Montreal and of the exceptional life of Jeanne Mance.
Although not a member of the order, she led the work of cloistered nuns
who tended the sick in early Montreal beginning in 1644.
www.museedeshospitalieres.qc.ca
Address:
201 Avenue des Pins Ouest
Montreal, Quebec
H2W 1R5
514-849-2919
Thank you Shannon Perry for this feature!
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