09/16/2019
Southern California Medical Museum
SAD NEWS!!!!!! THE MUSEUM HAS LOST ITS LOCATION
The Southern California Medical Museum (SCMM) is the only medical history museum in Southern California. It has been serving our communities for 37 years. During this time we have hosted thousands of visitors from school age to senior citizens, provided the medicine merit badge to hundreds of Boy Scouts (boys and girls) and have consulted on television shows and motion pictures, and provided many displays and presentations. Visitors have come from all over the state, even as far as Europe and Asia. A visit to the museum has been part of the curriculum of several professional schools. All fabulous volunteer committee members and others have put in countless hours making the SCMM an enriching experience for our guests. We have been housed at Western University in Pomona for five years and has been very beneficial to both parties, with participation by medical students, librarians and SCMM contributions to the community and PR of the school.
So after this long and very successful arrangement, it came as a shock that our museum was told that we had to pack up all of our displays, materials and stored items and be out of the building in less than 90 days. This will definitely be a damaging blow to the SCMM. We barely have time to arrange storage of our materials, let alone find a new location.
So, we are placing an appeal to all who read this note. If you care at all about medical history, then we implore you to help us come up with a solution. Do you know of any organization that may wish to sponsor the SCMM? A city? A hospital? Another medical school, perhaps? If you have any contacts that could be of help, please connect with Debbie Long at 909-273-6000 or [email protected].
