University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Medical Museum
Mission Statement
Adrienne Drapkin
Peer Review Status: Not peer reviewed
The
mission of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Medical
Museum is to stimulate, inform, and educate patients, visitors and
the citizens of Iowa and surrounding regions about institutional
health care and health-related issues. The presentation of exhibits
will provide the public with an understanding of the University
Hospitals' past, present and future role in providing medical and
patient-care advances and technology in Iowa. Exhibits will consist
of artifacts, photographs, medical equipment and instruments, records
and other memorabilia. Audiovisual programs will be offered to
promote a greater understanding of museum displays, and whenever
possible interactive exhibits will be installed.
The goals of the museum are:
- To stimulate the desire of the public to learn more about the
changing role hospitals play in society, and to illustrate how
UIHC in particular has contributed to these changes since its
beginnings in the nineteenth century.
- To collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret medical and
health-related artifacts, with particular focus on artifacts
significant to the history of health care at UIHC and in the State
of Iowa.
- To increase public awareness and understanding of UIHC's
three-part mission of the medical care, education, and research
and the close relationship among these three in enhancing patient
welfare.
- To present and interpret to the general public health-science
and health-care innovations and issues (past, present and future),
particularly those in which UIHC has or will have an important
role.
- To offer lectures, films, demonstrations, publications, etc.,
that will enhance the understanding of museum exhibits.
Adrienne Drapkin
Medical Museum Director
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