The Drs. Helen H. and Robert J. Glaser History of Medicine Gallery is a beautiful exhibition space located outside of the Archives and Rare Books Division on the Becker Library’s 7th floor. A list of exhibitions displayed in the Glaser Gallery is provided below.
- In Their Own Words: Stories of Desegregation at Washington University Medical Center
March 2023 – June 2023 - How Did We Get Hear? Historic Hearing Devices, 1800-2000
November 2022 – February 2023 - Through the Scope: A Small History of Microscopy
July 2022 – October 2022 - Out of Scope: Unexpected Titles in the Rare Book Collections
March 2022 – June 2022 - 19th Century Medical Schools of St. Louis
September 2021 – February 2022 - Washington University and the Atomic Age
February 2021 – August 2021 - Glaser Gallery closed
June 2020 – January 2021 - Medicine in the Fantastic and Fantastic Medicine
February 2020 – May 2020 - Immigrants (We get the job done)
November 2019 – January 2020 - H. Richard Tyler: Collecting the Foundations of Neurology
August 2019 – October 2019 - That Was Then: An Exhibit on the Architectural History of WUSM
May 2019 – July 2019 - ‘A Benevolent Purpose’: Celebrating 140 Years of St. Louis Children’s Hospital
February 2019 – April 2019 - Making a Monster
October 2018 – January 2019 - Brain Localization: Images and Ideas Through 500 Years
July 2018 – September 2018 - Base Hospital 21: Washington University Medical Center’s response to World War I
February 2018 – June 2018 - Introducing the Book: The Title Page from 1500-1900
October 2017 – January 2018 - “Skill, tenderly applied, works wonders” – A History of The Jewish Hospital of St. Louis
June 2017 – September 2017 - Books and Bodies: 500 Years of Printing Medical Texts
February 2017 – May 2017 - Legacy of Achievement: Washington University School of Dental Medicine
September 2016 – January 2017 - Glaser Gallery under renovation
June 2016 – August 2016 - Prophetic Illustration in the Paracelsus Collection
February 2016 – May 2016 - A Foundation for the Next Century
June 2015 – January 2016 - Celebrating 500 Years of Vesalius
December 2014 – May 2015 - Central Institute for the Deaf Centennial, 1914-2014
June 2014 – November 2014 - Barnes Hospital Centennial, 1914-2014
January 2014 – May 2014 - A Noble Material: A Small Sampling of Clinical Investigation and Human Experimentation
August 2013 – December 2013 - In the Next Room: Medical Treatment of Women with “Hysteria”
April 2013 – July 2013 - Occultism and Science in the Early Modern World
October 2012 – March 2013 - Bernard Becker Collection in Ophthalmology and Optics
December 2011 – September 2012 - Rare Book Collections and their Collectors
January 2011 – November 2011 - ‘Wholly Inadequate.’ Abraham Flexner’s 1910 Report on Medical Education in the United States
August 2010 – December 2010 - History of Homeopathy in St. Louis, 1843-1910
January 2010 – July 2010 - Making a Place: Women in Medical Education
April 2009 – December 2009 - The ‘New’ Medical Center, 1915
November 2008 – March 2009 - Dissection in Still Life, or the Published Work of Gérard de Lairesse
August 2007 – July 2008 - The 21st General Hospital Goes to War
January 2006 – July 2007 - Manuscript or Print? A Book Exhibit on the Renaissance Wars in Media Technology
October 2004 – December 2005 - New beginnings: The first decade of the Medical Campus
February – October 2004 - We’ve come a long way, maybe: 10th anniversary of the Academic Women’s Network
March – December 2002 - Muses and the Healing Art: An Exhibition on Medicine and the Arts
January – December, 2001 - Age of Smoke and Starch: Washington University School of Medicine in the 1950’s
1999-2000 - Dream city: Viennese Medicine as a Benchmark for St. Louis Doctors
April – October 1997 - Honor Crown the Worthiest: early 20th Century Perspectives on Medical Education from the Schulenburg and Bulger Collections
August, 1996 – April,1997 - The Keenest of Senses: Celebrating the Becker Rare Book Collection in Ophthalmology
May, 1995 – July, 1996 - Paracelsus: 500 years
March – December, 1994 - Realizing the Dream: Honoring the 75th Anniversary of Women’s Admission to the School of Medicine
October, 1993 – March, 1994 - Everything Nice: Sugars and Spices in Medical History
July – September, 1993
January – April, 1995 - Bodies, Bones, and Belligerence: China Perceived by Westerners
February – June, 1993 - Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores: The World of Renaissance Medical Discovery
October, 1992 – February, 1993 - The 21st General Hospital Goes to War
June – October 1992 - The Book as Patient: Crisis of the Printed Text
January – May 1992 - The Binding Influence: A Celebration of the Medical School Centennial
October – December, 1991 - A Tooth is a Sensible Bone: An Exhibit on Progress in Dental Medicine
May – September 1991 - McDowell’s College and Pope’s College: The Prehistory of Washington University School of Medicine
February – April, 1991 - Caliban’s New Master: An Exhibit on Renaissance Medicine
September, 1990 – January 1991