The Museum’s four floors are filled with extraordinary artifacts, as well as paintings, illustrations and sculptures that interpret the pre-modern and modern healing practices of human civilization. From early practices to today’s revolutionary techniques, the Museum’s collections and exhibits portray the mysteries, breakthroughs, failures, and milestones that have shaped modern surgical science.

Currently on View

Medical Galleries

Wound Healing: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Technologies

A World Without Polio

Rx For Success: Health Career Center

Nursing: Care for a Changing World

Windows on the World: The Science of Sight & The Ophthalmic Art

Diagnostic Detectives: Pathology in Modern Medical Practice

Anatomical Illustration

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Pain & Pain Management

X-Rays

Taiwan Hall of Fame

Japan Hall of Fame

19th Century Apothecary and Dentist’s Office

The Hall of Immortals – Sculptures by Louis Linck & Edouard Chaissing

The Hall of Murals – Paintings by Count Gregorio Calvi di Bergolo

Spanish Mural Gallery

Surgeons and Quacks

Middle-East Mural Gallery

Prehistoric Trephination

Orthopedics

Cardiology

Contemporary Art Galleries

The International Museum of Surgical Science supports a commitment to contemporary art and artists through exhibitions and programs that use the frame of contemporary artistic practice to examine new perspectives in surgical science and our relationship to the body. The Museum’s Contemporary Arts Initiative includes rotating exhibitions of contemporary art, as well as an ongoing Artist in Residence program.

Soft Sculpture