Media Release Archive

Press Releases

2017

Spooky Scavenger Hunts PA Day Program (2017)

Medical History Trivia Night (2017)

Margaret Angus Research Fellowship Evening (2017)

Summer Family Program (2017)

Exhibits Launch (2017) - Francais

Quarantine Tent Event (2017) - Francais

March Break Programs (2017)

Teddy Bear Hospital Family Day Program (2017)

2016

"Artefact or Artefiction" (2016)

"Seniors' Interactive Learning Program Launch at the Museum of Health Care" (2016)

"Free museum programs about traditional Indigenous medicine for ages 6-12" (2016)

"Technology Upgrade offers museum visitors new insights into the past" (2016)

"Birthday Party for the Museum of Health Care" (2016)

"The Truth Behind the Tooth" NEW March Break Programs at the Museum of Health Care (2016)

"Teddy Bear Hospital" Family Day Program (2016)

2015

2015 Dr. Margaret Angus Research Fellowship Evening (2015)

Summer Family Program (2015)

Museum celebrates new exhibit on the family of Sir John A. Macdonald (2015)

"Pump it UP!" March Break Programs (2015)

"Trench Menders: Health Care workers during the First World War" (2015)

"Teddy Bear Hospital" Family Day Programs (2015)

2014

Museum of Health Care launches new online exhibit on vaccinations (2014)

2014 Dr. Margaret Angus Research Fellowship Evening (2014)

Summer Family Program: "Behind the Scenes: Health Care in WWI" (2014)

Nursing Week event to highlight the history of psychiatric nursing (2014)

"Brainium Explainium" (2014)

"War and Public Health," new temporary exhibit (2014)

"Teddy Bear Hospital" Family Day Programs (2014)

2013

Museum of Health Care unveils new exhibit on the history of vaccines (2013)

Museum of Health Care to host board games night (2013)

"A Healthy Dose of Horror" (2013)

2013 Dr. Margaret Angus Research Fellowship Lecture (2013)

Culture Day Collaborative Event (2013)

Museum of Health Care launches mobile app (2013)

"Electrifying Medicine" (2013)

Summer Family Program: "OUTBREAK: Diseases throughout history" (2013)

"LOUD DAY! Balloon Blast Scavanger Hunt" (2013)

"Success by 6 Week" Free Program (2013)

"Nursing Week event to focus on the history of St. Lawrence College" (2013)

"Pump it UP!" March Break Programs (2013)

"Teddy Bear Hospital" Family Day Program (2013)

2012

New online exhibit at the Museum of Health Care: "Fighting for Breath: Stopping the TB Epidemic" (2012)

"Half gods, good Surgeons may be called" Free Public Lecture (2012)

"A Healthy Dose of Horror" at the Museum of Health Care (2012)

Margaret Angus Research Fellowship Lecture: "Cultures of Birth. Midwifery in 19th- and 20th-century Ontario" (2012)

New education program "The Biology, Control and Prevention of Waterborne Diseases" at the Museum of Health Care (2012)

New summer family program Marching Toward Medicine at the Museum of Health Care(2012)

New Children's Gallery exhibition opening: "The Skin You're In" at the Museum of Health Care (2012)

Nursing Week event to focus on Women Religious Orders and Catholic Hospitals (2012)

Community invited to honour Dr. James Low -- Founder of the Museum of Health Care (2012)

Healthy eating at the Museum of Health Care -- "Yum, Yum, MUNCH!" program for children (2012)

"Teddy Bear Hospital" Family Day Program back by popular demand at Museum of Health Care (2012)

 

2011

New online project offers hidden gems: "From the Collection" of the Museum of Health Care (2011)

"Spare Parts" lecture on the history of prosthetics (2011)

Music and memory: learning from people with dementia (2011)

"A Healthy Dose of Horror" at the Museum of Health Care (2011)

Our Sensational Senses summer program (2011)

New summer program at the Museum of Health Care (2011)

Trio of Kid-Friendly Programs at Museum of Health Care This May (2011)

Five-Year Nursing History Project Unveiled (2011)

"Snot & Whatnot" at the Museum of Health Care at Kingston (2011)

Museum of Health Care Reopens after Temporary Closure (2011)

Contagious Diseases During the 19th Century: Kingston, a Canadian Case Study (2011)

"Teddy Bear Hospital"Family Day Program at the Museum of Health Care (2011)

 

2010

The Nostrums and Nibbles Gala (2010)
Documentation of event

Canada's Premier Collection of Dental Artefacts Arrives in Kingston (2010)
More about the dental collection

Temporary Closure: November 8, 2010 to January 31, 2011 (2010)

Torture or Treatment: Electroconvulsive Therapy (2010)
Documentation of presentation

Summer Family Programs for Ages 6 and Up at the Museum of Health Care (2010)
Documentation of program

Funding Success for Museum Collection (2010)
Project released in 2011

Canada's First Neurologist: A Story of Paralysis, Dogs and Royalty (2010)
Documentation of lecture

March Break at the Museum of Health Care (2010)
Documentation of program

"When Medicine Met Science Fiction" Film Night: Cloning in Popular Film (2010)
Documentation of event

"Ann at Home" - 15th Anniversary Celebration of the Ann Baillie Building National Historic Site as Home to the Museum of Health Care (2010)
Documentation of event

2009

"Medical Miracles: Doctors, Saints, and Healing in the Modern World"- Free Public Lecture by Dr. Jacalyn Duffin (2009)
Documentation of lecture

Public lecture on the development of the electrocardiogram in recognition of World Heart Day (2009)
Documentation of lecture

2008

Announcing the Museum of Health Care's new medical history outreach gallery tour of the Hall of Honour at Kingston General Hospital (2009)

Museum of Health Care accepts significant donation from WWII veteran today at 2pm (2009)
Documentation