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Nursing School Memories
Stop by the museum’s library, just next to the gift shop, to learn about the history of nursing. Featured artifacts include nursing school uniforms from the mid-20th century. For much of the 20th century until the 1960-1970s, nursing students typically trained at...
Foxglove
One of the prettiest flowers grown in the Country Doctor Museum’s medicinal garden is foxglove (Digitalis). The observations of the foxglove by William Withering, an 18th century English physician, elevated a traditional folk remedy to...
Garden Stalwarts
Museum staff were disappointed not to plant the museum’s medicinal garden this spring due to Coronavirus stay-at-home orders. However, we were pleasantly surprised to see how much of our garden grew back on its own, seemingly not needing our TLC! Our favorite hardy...
Taking Our Tour on the Road…Virtually!
Our local and national response to COVID-19 created massive changes throughout our communities. To help with a request from an area school for online educational resources this past May, the museum’s staff created a recorded tour presentation and participated in an...
Out & About
Did you know the Country Doctor Museum installs temporary exhibits around the region? A fascinating display based on our Sick Room exhibit is currently on view at ECU’s Brody School of Medicine. A long hallway linking the medical school with Vidant Medical Center has...
50 Years & Still Going Strong!
Visitors celebrated the 50th anniversary of The Country Doctor Museum’s opening on December 8, 2018, fifty years to the day of the museum’s opening in 1968. Guests and staff (including ECU librarians and archivists) listened to local musicians, enjoyed refreshments,...