{"id":183517,"date":"2026-05-04T15:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183517\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:06:10","slug":"pennsylvania-hospital-marks-its-275th-anniversary-with-new-museum-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/183517\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Hospital marks its 275th anniversary with new museum \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania Hospital, one of the nation\u2019s oldest hospitals, is celebrating its remarkable 275-year history by opening a new museum this week. <\/p>\n

The museum, located in the historic Pine Street Building of the hospital, will open to the public on May 8.<\/p>\n

The exhibits cover multiple floors and showcase centuries of medical care and innovation.<\/p>\n

Visitors are invited to explore pages of notes written by Benjamin Franklin in the historic library. They can open doors to listen to correspondence from nurses who served during the world wars, pull out drawers to discover remedies that would have been prescribed in the original apothecary, and even attempt to perform surgery on a life-size 3D touch-screen table in the nation’s first surgical amphitheater.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania Hospital MuseumPennsylvania Hospital Museum<\/p>\n

Organizers said each gallery is dedicated to a story central to Pennsylvania Hospital\u2019s legacy.\u00a0Highlights include: <\/p>\n

Brain and mental health:\u00a0The hospital was first established to provide\u00a0psychiatric care<\/a>\u00a0to Philadelphia\u2019s poorest residents, which at the time was groundbreaking. Since then, Pennsylvania Hospital continues to pioneer cutting-edge technologies to treat complicated conditions, including using\u00a0Deep Brain Stimulation for binge-eating disorder<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0thought-powered prosthetics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Women\u2019s health:\u00a0Today, Pennsylvania Hospital is the busiest birthing hospital in Philadelphia, welcoming over 5,000 babies into the world each year. It paved the way for modern obstetrics and gynecology for centuries, from establishing the first\u00a0maternity ward<\/a>\u00a0in 1803, to\u00a0addressing racial disparities<\/a>\u00a0in maternal health care today.<\/p>\n

Apothecary and pharmaceuticals:\u00a0In a reconstruction of the hospital\u2019s original apothecary, the museum traces the history of how illness is treated, from the\u00a0early therapies<\/a>\u00a0created from plants through modern day innovative therapies developed at Penn Medicine, like\u00a0CAR-T cell therapy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0CRISPR gene editing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Leading through conflicts and perseverance:\u00a0Pennsylvania Hospital played an important role in guiding the nation through challenging times; Starting with the\u00a0American Revolution<\/a>, Pennsylvania Hospital cared for soldiers during times of war. The hospital also provided care to Philadelphians during pandemics, from the Spanish Flu all the way through COVID-19.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tPennsylvania Hospital MuseumPennsylvania Hospital Museum<\/p>\n

\u201cPennsylvania Hospital is not only linked to the history of just Philadelphia \u2013 but to the history of the United States of America:\u00a0\u00a0From caring for soldiers during the American revolution to sending physicians and nurses abroad to care for soldiers in World War I and World War II, from the Yellow Fever in 1793 to the\u00a0COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, from brewing healing teas from herbs grown on hospital grounds to developing brain-computer interfaces that can treat conditions like Parkinson\u2019s disease and obsessive-compulsive disorder, \u201d Stacey Peeples, Lead Archivist at Pennsylvania Hospital said in a statement on the hospital’s website. \u201cI am thrilled to illuminate the huge contributions of generations of caregivers, patients and staff, so that every visitor can share in the pride we feel in the history of Pennsylvania Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

Older than the United States itself, Pennsylvania Hospital was\u00a0founded\u00a0in 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond. <\/p>\n

Over the last 275 years, the hospital has continued to be a leader in patient care and is nationally recognized for programs in\u00a0neurosurgery,\u00a0obstetrics and high-risk maternal and fetal services,\u00a0neonatology,\u00a0behavioral health, and\u00a0orthopedics.<\/p>\n

For more information and to sign up to receive updates on the museum, ticket sales, and museum events, visit\u00a0www.PAHospitalMuseum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Hospital, one of the nation\u2019s oldest hospitals, is celebrating its remarkable 275-year history by opening a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1057,34303,21530,28,30,29,69],"class_list":["post-183517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-health","tag-health-wellness","tag-health-science","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}