The Pearson Museum

801 N. Rutledge St., Springfield

217-545-2155

This museum is located in the SIU School of Medicine. The museum covers various aspects of healing, including pharmaceutical, surgical, dental and alternative medicine. Treatments through the centuries come to life in permanent and changing exhibits. The museum features a dental exhibit, a complete homeopathic dispensary and an entire 1900 drugstore from Canton, Illinois, with its many apothecary jars and vials. 

School groups and practicing physicians oten visit the museum.

Open by appointment.

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