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Our mission is to collect, preserve, and make available artifacts and related materials to communicate the history and philosophy of the osteopathic principles of body, mind, and spirit to a global audience.
Programs:
The School Discovery Programs are curriculum-integrated activities provided by the Museum that are not otherwise available to local schools. They are set up to serve children in Preschool through Grade 8. The Museum identified curriculum integration points using the 1999-2000 Approved State of Missouri Curriculum for K-8 (Department of Education, State of Missouri). Early childhood programs were designed using Developmentally Appropriate Practices in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children From Birth Through Age 8 (National Association for the Education of Young Children).
The Healer Within is the Museums traveling exhibit.
Collections:
The collections of the Still National Osteopathic Museum include more than 27,000 objects, photographs, documents, and books dating from the early 1800s to the present (bulk 1870-1940). The core of the collection consists of artifacts from A. T. Still's professional and private life, most of them donated by Dr. Still's daughter, Blanche Laughlin, and members of her family.
Since the founding of the Museum, other family members, D.O.s and Museum supporters have donated many additional artifacts that reflect the ongoing history of the osteopathic profession. The research collections of the National Center for Osteopathic History also include many former holdings of the ATSU-KCOM Library's special collections, for which the museum assumed responsibility in 1997.
Accessiblility:
From Route 63 in Kirksville, go west on Jefferson Street approximately 1.2 miles to the ATSU-KCOM campus. The Museum is located inside the Tinning Education Center, which is the glass-fronted building ahead on the right as you enter the campus grounds. Visitors may park in the patient/visitor parking lot, ahead on the left. The main doors of the Education Center open into Heritage Hall, with the Museum entrance directly beyond.
Handicap accessible.
Additional Info:
The Historic Medicinal Plant Garden, located just outside Heritage Hall, features a wide variety of shrubs, trees, and perennials grown for medicinal use by early American physicians. They are presented in a modern landscape that also includes a small fish pond, seating areas, a picnic table, and interpretive information.
Visitors enter the Museum through Heritage Hall, a two-story glass atrium that serves as the east entrance to the Tinning Education Center. This large space features two of the museum's largest artifacts — the Still Family Cabin and the First School Building of the American School of Osteopathy (ASO). Both contain photographs, artifacts, and sensor-activated audio systems that respectively present interpretive glimpses into the Still family's frontier life and the earliest years of the ASO. The cabin, built in Lee County, Virginia in the 1820s, and the two-room ASO building, used from 1892-94, were both moved to their present location in 1994 as tangible reminders that Kirksville is the birthplace of the osteopathic profession.
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