Dean,

Unfortunately I am missing AAM this year to go to a cousin's graduation.
Sorry I'll miss seeing your place.  Hope all is well.  Best to your family,

Susan
Susan Glassman
Director
Wagner Free Institute of Science
1700 West Montgomery Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19121
215-763-6529 ext. 14


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Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 4:29 PM
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Subject: A New & Unusual Museum in Baltimore


We'd like to invite anyone coming to Baltimore for the AAM meeting (May
15-18) to visit a new and unusual museum that is located only five blocks
from the Baltimore Convention Center.

How new?  Well, October 1999.  Truly unusual?  Yes, in that  it  is a
history museum in a decidedly non-museum, non-history minded setting.

I'll stop beating around the bush.  The University of Maryland School of
Nursing Museum is located at 655 W. Lombard Street (Lombard is one block
north of Pratt St, the Convention Center street).  The Museum is modest in
size, but densely layered with some 150 original object s and photographs,
another 100 repro photos and graphics, 12 oral history tape loops, and two
8-minute video presentations.  Intended as an account of the school's
history from 1889 to the present, the Museum has pleasantly surprised us by
transcending the genre of "institutional history."  You'll find a  history
of  modern American nursing, as well as plenty of food for thought about the
intersection of nursing and women's history.

As far as the Museum's setting in a professional school, we feel like public
history pioneers, or perhaps missionaries, somewhere out there on the
frontier.

Sound interesting?  Please drop us a line if you'd like to stop by.  And for
all of you signed up for the Monday evening event "A Night on the West
Side," we'll see you for drinks and snacks between 6:30 and 8pm.  That's
because the School of Nursing Museum has joined the Babe Ruth Museum and
Museum of Dentistry as one of the stops before dinner at the B&O Museum.

Looking forward to seeing you in Baltimore.

Dean Krimmel, Historian/Curator ([log in to unmask])
Jennifer Gayman, Collections Manager ([log in to unmask])
University of Maryland School of Nursing Museum
655 W. Lombard Street (Office: Room 490)
Baltimore, MD  21201-1579
410-706-1502
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