U. S. Nursing Museums

The following are a list of Nursing Museums in the U. S.
If you know of any that are not on this list,
please email Dr. Perry and the list will be updated.

Arizona

Tempe

American Museum of Nursing

Connecticut

Storrs

University of Connecticut
- Alice Fitzgerald

Illinois

Peoria

Methodist College of Nursing

41 St. Marks Court
Peoria, IL 61603
309-672-5519
Sallie Tucker-Allen, RN, PhD, FAAN, Director
email: stucker-allen@mmci.org

Indiana

Indianapolis

St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital Museum
Contact information: Denise Rumschlag, Librarian
317.338.2095 DHRumsch@stvincent.org

Wishard Memorial Hospital School of Nursing Museum
1001 West 10th Street,
Indianapolis, IN 46202
317.630.7311 www.wishard.edu
Contact information: Sharon K. Benefiel
317.630.7991 sharon.benefiel@wishard.edu

The museum contains pictures/books/items related to the School of Nursing and nursing care through the years. The Flower Mission Training School for Nurses began in 1883 with 9 nursing students and 5 graduated in 1885. The last graduating class (Wishard Memorial Hospital School of Nursing) was in 1980. A total of 2630 student nurses graduated from the School of Nursing.

Maryland

Baltimore

Johns Hopkins Alan Mason Chesney Archives
Materials on Alice Fitzgerald (Newpaper articles; articles from JH Nurses Alumnae Magazine; WWI Diaries; Medals)

Maryland Historical Society
Typescript of Alice Fitzgerald diaries; articles about Alice Fitzgerald

University of Maryland

Valerie James
Email: vjame001@son.maryland.edu

Frederick

Museum of Civil War Medicine

48 East Patrick St.
Frederick, MD
301-695-1864
www.civilwarmed.org
email: museum@civilwarmed.org
Mail: P. O. Box 470
Frederick, MD 21701-0470

Michigan

The Center for the History of Medicine

New York

The Margaret Sanger Project

Rochester

Baker-Cederberg Museum and Archives
Rochester General Hospital (the 12th Nightingale hospital to be founded in
the U.S.)
Suzanne Mohnkern, PhD, RN
Chairperson, Division of Nursing
Roberts Wesleyan College
2301 Westside Drive
Rochester, NY 14624-1997
585-594-6330
585-594-6593 (fax)
mohnkerns@roberts.edu

Ohio

Dayton

Wright State University
Archives & Special Collections
Collections include materials from the state school nurses association, local district nurses association and coming soon, an oral history of the college.

Parma

The Crile Archives and Center for History Education

Oklahoma

Sheryl Buckner, RN, MS, CM
University of Oklahoma
Sheryl-buckner@ouhsc.edu

South Carolina

Moncks Corner

Berkeley Museum
Stoney Landing Road
Houses archives about Maude Callen, one of the first public health
nurses in Berkeley County

Wisconsin

Caps Museum