The Donald Kirk Piper MD Memorial Medical Museum Collection

3218 Gladstone Boulevard,Kansas City MO 64123

27 November, 2022

Description

Join Joan Hilger-Mullen, former Curator of the Piper Medical Museum for a conservation centered around the collection. In 1972, Dr. Donald K. Piper began collecting material related to the history of the medical profession. Originally housed at St. Joseph Hospital, the collection contains over 15,000 items, including both artifacts and archival materials. It was given to the Kansas City Museum in 2015. This collection is one of the largest medical collections in the Midwest and illustrates the many advances in medical care over the last 100+ years. For more information, please contact Curator of Collections, Lisa Shockley at [email protected] or 816.702.7704.