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. The museum also offers an extensive list of links to other
websites relating to medical history, science education and health careers.