Still National Osteopathic Museum

November 05, 2009

Missouri Digital Heritage website is hosting Dr. Andrew Taylor Still's Unpublished Papers. Made available through a State of Missouri LSTA grant. Check it out here!

August 11, 2009
Museum Is Awarded $125,252 from the Museums For American IMLS Grant

The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Museums For American awarded a grant of $125,252 to the Still National Osteopathic Museum and International Center for Osteopathic History. Funding from this grant will allow staff to effectively categorize and catalog artifacts as they move toward a uniform inventory of their Osteopathic Heritage collection.

The Museum had applied for the grant for assistance in creating a completely uniform inventory of the collection. Staff members have planned a comprehensive inventory of all collections with digitized and scanned images, as well as online access to the inventory. This award is the first phase of a multiyear project, with an ultimate goal of better serving the public, as well as seeking accreditation from the American Association of Museums.

Museums for America is the Institute’s largest grant program for museums, providing more than $19 million in grants to support the role of museums in American society to sustain cultural heritage, to support lifelong learning; and to be centers of community engagement. Museums for America grants strengthen a museum’s ability to serve the public more effectively by supporting high-priority activities that advance the institution’s mission and strategic goals. In 2009, 433 applicants applied and the Institute awarded over $19 million in grant money to 167 museums.

Earlier in the year, the Museum, in collaboration with the A.T. Still Memorial Library, received another grant from the Missouri Digital Heritage Initiative for $38,761. This award is funding a second Museum initiative that is bring hundreds of handwritten documents by Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., D.O., the pioneer of osteopathic medicine, to a web-searchable database. The Museum is currently comprised of three collections: the Still National Museum Collection, the International Center for Osteopathic History Collection, and the A.T. Still Memorial Library Special Collection. In the last fiscal year, the Museum hosted 6,020 on-site visitors and conducted 63 adult and student programs.

Welcome to the Still National Osteopathic Museum. 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.

As you browse through our site, you will be introduced to many of the Museum's unique features, including:

• Two historic buildings preserved inside a two-story atrium adjacent to the Museum
  - the birthplace log cabin of Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., D.O., (1828-1917), founder of osteopathy
  - the original two-room classroom building of the American School of Osteopathy,   founded in 1892
• Distinctive exhibits highlighting osteopathy's heritage
• School Discovery Programs and other educational programs designed to educate visitors of all ages about osteopathic medicine, healthcare, wellness, and a wide range of other topics
• A reading room with access to hundreds of documents, books, and photographs to support research into the history of osteopathy and its practitioners
• A gift shop featuring historic books and unusual gifts with an osteopathic theme
• Exhibit kits with objects and photographs to rent for your own display or presentation

As the only museum dedicated to the national history of osteopathic medicine, the Still National Osteopathic Museum:

• Collects artifacts, photographs, documents, and books that trace the history of the osteopathic profession throughout the United States and the world
• Preserves these unique resources for present and future visitors and researchers
• Educates thousands of visitors about the unique legacy of Andrew Taylor Still, M.D., D.O., and the osteopathic profession

View the Museum's Main Gallery, which features the history of American medicine as it relates to the growth of osteopathic medicine. Also, you will find osteopathic treatment tables, medical tools, specimens, photographs, and a room full of the personal property of A.T. Still and his family in a turn-of-the-century setting. The Main Gallery is located in the Still National Osteopathic Museum.
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The Museum is located in Kirksville, Missouri, where Dr. Still lived for more than 40 years and where in 1892 he founded the first school of osteopathic medicine, today known as the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.