It Was a Grand Grand Opening!

More than 85 members and friends of MedChi, the Maryland State Medical Society gathered on Monday, June 3 to celebrate the 225th anniversary of the first meeting in 1799, and to open Phase III of the MedChi Museum of Maryland Medical History. 

The group was entertained by the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra who played classical music from the marble staircase landing.

Then the group gathered in Osler Hall for welcome speeches by CEO, Gene Ransom;

MedChi President, Ben Lowentritt, MD;

Center for a Healthy Maryland President, Steve Rockower, MD;

and Center Executive, Allan Browder.

After this, everyone gathered for a ceremonial ribbon cutting,

complete with a giant pair of scissors.

We were so pleased to feature an exhibit of "Urine and War" courtesy of our friends at the American Urological Association and their fascinating museum in Linthicum, Maryland, which included a panel on Napoleon at Waterloo, coinciding with our display of Napoleon's medical chest from the Battle of Waterloo.

The evening ended with a tour of the building, including the Krause Room and the Stacks, as well as one or two ghost stories, given by Meg Fairfax Fielding, head of the History of Medicine in Maryland.