Educating Our Community Through Our Collection

Making the information we gather accessible is our prime purpose. The Museum has established a speaker’s bureau available to make presentations to interested groups, as well as an online database of our collections and publications.

We have initiated an effort by Lancaster County medical professionals to document and preserve the history of medical specialties and allied professional groups with a plan to publish. These individual projects include articles on the histories of local institutions, past medical issues in the area, medical specialties, and allied professions. Our articles are written by our board members, volunteers, local history and medical professionals and the Museum’s student interns.

For information regarding usages rights and republication, please see our Guidelines for Reproduction or contact our Rights and Reproduction department.

We are always looking to expand our article database. If you have any interest in including work on our site or partnering in writing new histories, please contact our Publications chair at director@lancastermedicalheritagemuseum.org with the subject line "Publications"

Articles

Our article database consists of many medical and historical fields. Please follow the links below to access the article sections. 

Newsletters

Our newsletters highlight various collections of the museum, as well as regional historical or medical research. Articles range from medical field histories, institutional records, and specific artifacts or collections features.


Please contact our Executive Director or Rights and Reproduction department for information on newsletter distribution and permissions.


If you are interested in submitting an article or advertisement for future newsletters, please contact the newsletter editor at director@lancastermedicalheritagemuseum.org with the subject line "Newsletters"

Global Health Volunteering Project

In service to the mission of recording and sharing the history of the healing arts in Lancaster County, we are launching a new project to collect writings, photos, artifacts and oral histories of Lancaster physicians who have voluntarily served overseas in underserved areas. The stories of this work are part of the county’s greater story of sharing our abundance with others and openness to other cultures, as they challenge us to do more.

If you’d like to be a part of this county’s medical volunteering narrative, please fill out our Global Health Volunteering survey.