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Mobile Medical Museum

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Mobile, Alabama

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The Mobile Medical Museum houses the largest medical collection in the Southeast, displaying 200 years of the medically obsolete, the primitive and the innovative, the bizarre and the commonplace--all of which contributed, in small or large ways, to modern medicine.

One of most the interesting items on display is the larger-than-life anatomical model for the Medical College of Mobile and the painstakingly accurate papier-maché model of the autonomic nervous system, copied from an 1854 Hirschfeld atlas.

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The museum is located in the Vincent-Doan-Walsh historic home on the campus of the University of South Alabama's Children's and Women's Hospital.

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Mobile Medical Museum
1664 Springhill Ave,
Mobile, Alabama, 36604
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30.692507, -88.077624
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