Interactive Gallery Talk: Amputation
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About this event
Enhance your visit to the Museum with our monthly gallery talks! The next gallery talk at the Museum will be Tuesday, January 28 at 2:00pm, free with the price of admission.
At this month's gallery talk, visitors will learn about Civil War era amputations and watch an interactive demonstration to experience the most common surgery performed before the discovery of anesthesia and germ theory.
Talks will meet on the first floor across from the Admissions desk, in the Surgicogenomics gallery and walk together to the gallery. Talk length is approximately 30 minutes and may require guests to summit up to four flights of stairs. Elevator and accessible entrance is available.
Tickets to the Museum required for entrance to gallery talks.
Organizer International Museum of Surgical Science
Organizer of Interactive Gallery Talk: Amputation
The International Museum of Surgical Science, a division of the International College of Surgeons (ICS), maintains over 10,000 square feet of public galleries committed to the history of surgery, and an exquisite permanent collection of art and artifacts from the history of Medicine. The Museum supports its Mission through medically thematized exhibitions and programs, in addition to a strong contemporary art exhibition program.
The Mission of the Museum is to enrich people’s lives by enhancing their appreciation and understanding of the history, development, and advances in surgery and related subjects in health and medicine.
