Episode 055 Daryn Glassbrook, Mobile Medical Museum, 2022 AHA Museum Award Winner

Episode # 55 Dr. Daryn Glassbrook - The Mobile Medical Museum
October 3, 2022 _________________________________ The Mobile
Medical Museum won the Alabama Historical Association's Historical
Museum Award for 2022. ********** From iron lungs to medicinal
gardening and special exhibits - the Mobile Medical Museum boasts
over 300 years of medical history and artifacts. Our guest today is
Dr. Daryn Glassbrook, Executive Director of the Mobile Medical
Museum. Founded in 1962 by Dr. Samuel Eichold II, the Mobile
Medical Museum preserves and exhibits medical artifacts and
archives to commemorate Mobile's prominent place in the history of
medical education and public health in the state of Alabama and the
Gulf Coast. The Museum's collections and exhibitions provide the
public with a broad understanding of the evolution of the art and
science of health care. Links mentioned in this episode: University
of South Alabama - https://www.southalabama.edu/ University of
South Alabama Children’s and Women’s Hospital -
https://www.usahealthsystem.com/locations/childrens-womens-hospital
University of Alabama at Birmingham - https://www.uab.edu/home/
Master Gardeners of Mobile County - https://mg.aces.edu/mobile/
Mobile Urban Growers - https://www.mobileurbangrowers.org/ Full
Life Ahead Foundation - https://fulllifeahead.org/ Poarch Band of
Creek Indians - https://pci-nsn.gov/ Mobile Medical Museum on the
web - https://www.mobilemedicalmuseum.org/ Mobile Medical Museum on
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MobileMedicalMuseum/ Mobile
Medical Museum on Instagram -
https://www.instagram.com/mobilemedicalmuseum/ Rather read? Here’s
the link to the transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ET_Gp-u9qubJ8p6ZhrokPwk-pnW5y5DM1ohcv4l19fk/edit?usp=sharing
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