Glore Psychiatric Museum

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Forced chair
Surprise bath with ice water
Impeller for patients
Devices for anal stretching from Dr. Young

The Glore Psychiatric Museum is a psychiatric history museum located at 3406 Frederick Ave in Saint Joseph , Missouri .

The subject is over 130 years of psychiatric history at State Lunatic Asylum No. 2, which was later renamed St. Joseph State Hospital.

The collection was built up from 1966 by George Glore, an employee of the Missouri Department of Mental Health. The museum opened in 1967.

Web links

Commons : Glore Psychiatric Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tammy Stone-Gordon, Private History in Public: Exhibition and the Settings of Everyday Life . AltaMira Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-7591-1934-5 , pp. 64-65.

Coordinates: 39 ° 46 ′ 34 "  N , 94 ° 48 ′ 30"  W.