Please note: The museum will be closed on Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Now available! The second printing of From Under the Cloud at Seven Steeples by Lucy Jane King, M.D.

From Under the Cloud at Seven Steeples is the true story of Anna Agnew, a devoted wife and mother in Vincennes, Indiana. In the 1870s, her radical mood swings caused her husband to commit her to the Indiana Hospital for the Insane.

Dr. Lucy King, a psychiatrist at the IU Medical Center tells Anna’s story with comments on modern treatment that Anna would have received today.
The book is available at the museum for $18.00, or by mail for $21.00.

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Welcome to the Indiana Medical History Museum!

The Indiana Medical History Museum is located in the Old Pathology Building on the grounds of the former Central State Hospital on the near westside of Indianapolis. The museum represents the beginning of scientific psychiatry and modern medicine while the building itself is the oldest surviving pathology facility in the nation and is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The museum maintains a collection of scientific artifacts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in a completely authentic setting. Constructed in 1895 and inaugurated in 1896, the nineteen-room Pathological Department Building, as it was then called, is equipped with three clinical laboratories, a photography lab, teaching amphitheatre, autopsy room, and library.

Explore this site to learn more about the Indiana Medical History Museum as well as Indiana's medical heritage!

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