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The '''Glore Psychiatric Museum''' is a museum located in [[St. Joseph, Missouri]], [[United States]]. It belongs to a complex of St. Joseph museums which also include the Black Archives Museum and the St. Joseph Museum and American Indian and History Galleries. Its exhibits feature the 130-year history of the state hospital as well as illustrating the history of mental health treatment through the ages.<ref name="website">{{cite web|url=http://stjosephmuseum.org/museums/glore/|title=Website|work=Glore Psychiatric Museum|accessdate=28 June 2014}}</ref> It is one of the fifty most unusual museum in the United States.<ref name=Legends/> |
The '''Glore Psychiatric Museum''' is a museum located in [[St. Joseph, Missouri]], [[United States]]. It belongs to a complex of St. Joseph museums which also include the Black Archives Museum and the St. Joseph Museum and American Indian and History Galleries. Its exhibits feature the 130-year history of the state hospital as well as illustrating the history of mental health treatment through the ages.<ref name="website">{{cite web|url=http://stjosephmuseum.org/museums/glore/|title=Website|work=Glore Psychiatric Museum|accessdate=28 June 2014}}</ref> It is one of the fifty most unusual museum in the United States.<ref name=Legends/> |
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Revision as of 13:38, 28 June 2014
The Glore Psychiatric Museum is a museum located in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States. It belongs to a complex of St. Joseph museums which also include the Black Archives Museum and the St. Joseph Museum and American Indian and History Galleries. Its exhibits feature the 130-year history of the state hospital as well as illustrating the history of mental health treatment through the ages.[1] It is one of the fifty most unusual museum in the United States.[2]
History
The collection began in 1967 when George Glore, an employee of the Missouri Department of Mental Health, built some life-size models of primitive mental health devices for a Mental Health Awareness Week. Glore turned the collection into a museum upon his retirement. The models and a growing collection of other artifacts became a museum, housed in a ward of the original State Lunatic Asylum No. 2 before it was moved to a larger, more modern complex of buildings.[2]
The asylum was built in the mid-1870s [3] much like a fortress, and has been re-purposed as a state prison; the Glore Museum adjoins the prison.[4] After the death of George Glore in 2010, Scott Clark became the museum's curator.[4]
Exhibits
Some of the exhibits include the "Giant Patient Treadmill", a device similar to a gerbil wheel, for patients to "walk off" anxiety, as well as a "Tranquilizer Chair", complete with forced hood, hand and feet restraints and built-in portable toilet to accommodate extended sessions.[5] [6]
According to Roadside America: "Glore told us patients could spend up to six months in the 'Tranquilizer Chair'. It was invented by Benjamin Rush, 'The Father of American Psychiatry,' a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and a big believer in leeches and bleeding".[4]
Other items include the "Bath of Surprise", a platform designed to quickly submerse the patient into a bath of ice water, as well as the "O'Halloran's Swing", a restraining device to spin the patient at up to 100 revolutions per minute.[4]
When people wanted to leave their relatives to the mental hospital they were told to drop them there with the clothes they wanted them to be buried in since they might never return back. There are approximately 2,000 graves on the museum's property of which none are named but numbered.[7]
References
- ^ "Website". Glore Psychiatric Museum. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Glore Psychiatric Museum in St. Joseph". legendsofamerica.com. Retrieved 28 June 2014.
- ^ "Saint Joseph State Hospital". kirkbridebuildings.com. Retrieved 27 Jun 2014.
- ^ a b c d "Glore Psychiatric Museum". Roadside America. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
- ^ "The tranquilizer chair of Benjamin Rush". From the U.S. National Library of Medicine, reproduced in: Boyd, Mary Ann, Psychiatric Nursing:Contemporary Practice, 4th ed. Lipponcott Williams and Wilkins, 2008. ISBN=978-0-7817-9169-4.
- ^ Bahr, Jeff (2009). Amazing and Unusual America. Chicago: Publications International. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-4127-1683-3.
- ^ Jason Offutt (2007). Haunted Missouri: A Ghostly Guide to the Show-Me State’s Most Spirited Spots. Truman State University Press. pp. 196–200. ISBN 978-1-935503-21-7.