Tours of 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.

Indiana Medical History Museum

A one-hour tour of the preserved 1896 research laboratory that served Indiana's Central State Hospital.

Visits are by guided tour and appointment only. Visitors can see the teaching amphitheater; laboratories for bacteriology, clinical chemistry, histology, and photography; the library, and reception room as well as the autopsy room and anatomical museum which houses preserved specimens--mostly brains, organized by pathology on a one-hour guided tour. If you do not see the date/time you want, please check back closer to the date as we are always adding more tours!NOTE: If you select a date/time and Eventbrite prompts for an access code, that tour date/time is unfortunately not available at this time.

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Tours of the Indiana Medical History Museum

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