Location:
111 W. Laurel Ave.
Foley, Alabama 36535
Open Monday-Friday 10-2
Free self-guided tour
The Holmes Medical Museum is located in Baldwin County’s first hospital, which served the community from 1936-1958. Many of the items on display are the original medical artifacts including surgical instruments, operating room machinery and a human skeleton. The interior of the museum is like a time capsule remaining practically unchanged from the time it served as the area’s first hospital. This fascinating museum will definitely take you back in time.
Sterilization Equipment 
Forceps 
X-ray Machine
Eye Examination Chair
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Feb 18, 2015 @ 09:24:25
Great shots. Especially love the bedpan wall and the skelly wearing sunglasses 🙂
Feb 19, 2015 @ 11:00:31
The skeleton had his fishing pole too. It just isn’t obvious in the pic.
Feb 18, 2015 @ 11:30:13
How interesting — a real trip back in time. That hospital closed the year after I graduated from HS — my physician dad must have seen hospitals like this!
Feb 19, 2015 @ 11:01:18
I am sure he did. He probably worked with some similar equipment.
Feb 19, 2015 @ 11:54:56
Lovely photos. It took me a while to realize that the photo after examination chair, is all bed pans!!!
Feb 20, 2015 @ 18:06:09
I know. I stood there looking at them a long time before I took the bedpan photo. It’s wild.
Feb 19, 2015 @ 23:32:36
scary. (good shots, of course) something about western medicine…argh.
Feb 20, 2015 @ 18:08:54
I thought it was scary too. I actually falter coming in and the door hit me in the back. Some of this looks like torture implements. Primitive.
Feb 20, 2015 @ 14:32:13
Wonderful — and very scary for our 21st century sensibilities — photos!
Feb 20, 2015 @ 18:09:30
It is scary. I totally agree.
Feb 23, 2015 @ 06:59:59
Excellent shots and that stuff is scary. I remember medical treatment before computers and all of the modern techie stuff. Dang i fellow.
Feb 23, 2015 @ 14:45:09
Doctors had worse technology, but it seems I could find better doctors back when.