On Feb. 22, at 10 am, the museum’s new Hospital Isolation Ward exhibit will be unveiled during our History in the Park event. The new exhibit is located in the building south of the main museum. Visitors have been able to see the ruins of the hospital for decades, but this new exhibit will help people visualize what the hospital once looked like during the 1880s. It will include a surgeon’s amputation kit, a Civil War surgery kit that belonged to one of the doctors at Fort Lowell and medicine bottles excavated on-site. A mannequin will represent Joseph Basil Girard, one of Fort Lowell’s post surgeons. The exhibit will also provide information on the hospital’s history.
Fort Lowell was a military supply post active from 1873 to 1891. The museum is located in Fort Lowell Park at 2900 N. Craycroft Rd. in an 1880s reproduction adobe officers’ quarters. Visitors see displays about the purpose and history of the fort, its soldiers and their families, In addition, displays are included about the Apache of the region and the pre-history of the area seen at the nearby Hardy site. The museum is open from 10 am to 3 pm Thursdays through Saturdays. Admission to the museum is $5/person and free for those five and younger as well as Fort Lowell and Presidio Museum members.
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