International Museum of Surgical Science
Specialty Museum · Chicago, Illinois
The only museum in North America devoted to the history of surgery, in a 1917 Gold Coast mansion on Lake Shore Drive modelled on a Louis XVI château at Versailles. Four floors of trepanned skulls, amputation kits, an iron lung, a reconstructed turn-of-the-century apothecary and a hall of murals honouring surgeons — it is small, genuinely strange, and unlike anything else in Chicago.
1524 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60610, United States
Short hours and open days have varied — check before travelling. Modest admission; no advance booking needed. Not suitable for young children.
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