MUSEUM BLOG
Interview with Former Curator Paul Robertson
After seven years with the Museum, former Curator Paul Robertson has decided to move on. The Museum of Health Care thanks Paul for his many years of innovative, exciting curatorial work and wishes him all the best in his new position. Before his departure, we conducted an interview with Paul.
Thank you for your Patronage to our Hall of Honour Exhibits at Kingston General Hospital
Over the past twenty years the Museum of Health Care has created exhibits for the Kingston General Hospital’s Hall of Honour. Recently KGH staff is working on a new redesign of this area and as part of that design process asked the museum to remove the exhibits for construction and carpet removal due to begin in July 2011.
Artificial Placenta Project
The Museum of Health Care receives a wide variety of gift offers over the course of a year. Many of these donations relate to healthcare themes more generally, but in special cases, some document the careers of individual practitioners.
Fenwick Operating Theatre: a life-saving surgery in Edwardian Kingston
At the heart of this story is young William Benjamin Stalker, who was born in 1891. The clinical details of his misadventure and life-saving surgery are preserved in the surgeon’s report detailing the boy’s accident and medical treatment in the January 1902 Kingston Medical Quarterly.
Funding Success for Museum Collection
We are excited to announce that Ontario’s Museums and Technology Fund has granted $15,000 to the Museum of Health Care for the development of a new feature on our website entitled “From the Collection”. To be developed over the next year, this page will include a series of short illustrated profiles for various objects, images, and documents drawn from the MHC collections.
Early Penicillin Sample Comes to Collection
Curators are always excited when they make a “find”, especially when that find more or less just arrives at our doorstep: an ampoule containing some of the first experimental penicillin produced in Canada!
The Book of a Life
While doing a long overdue sorting and clean-up of the Museum’s small research library recently, I came across a fascinating little book.This slim volume is a form of medical diary, where an individual writes down his or her health history from birth until old age.
Faith, Healing and Medical Miracles
Welcome to the Museum of Health Care’s first edition of Ex crypta: Curator’s Blog. Ex crypta (From the Vault) will feature periodic entries about artefacts in our collection, intriguing stories related to health care history, or details about ongoing projects or subjects I am pursuing. The Museum’s collection of objects and archival materials documenting the history of health and medicine in Canada contains many wonderful treasures. This blog is one way that we can share some of them with you.