Dittrick Medical History Center, Cleveland

About Dittrick Medical History Center

The Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland is a museum where visitors explore artifacts, images, and documents that tell stories about patients, healers, and communities throughout medical history. The museum's galleries feature collections that examine how individuals and society understood health and medicine across different eras. Visitors navigate the galleries at their own pace in a self-guided experience, discovering unique artifacts that open doors to historical narratives. The museum welcomes both the general public and the university community. The center occupies the third floor of the Allen Memorial Medical Library at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Adelbert Road. General admission is free and open to the public. The building and museum are wheelchair accessible. Groups of ten to twenty visitors can arrange visits by contacting the museum office.