"For people to have any interest in history, it needs to be told as a story."
Stacey Peeples, the curator and lead archivist at Pennsylvania Hospital, has spent decades bringing stories to life for visitors and scholars who come to learn about medical history at the nation's first chartered hospital.
This spring, stories spanning 275 years of medical history are now being told through interactive exhibits, restored clinical rooms, and original artifacts, curated by Peeples and developed into public museum exhibits in partnership with exhibit design consultant HealyKohler.
The transformation of the hospital's original Pine Building into a museum opens opportunity to share memories of the past and for future generations to carry those stories forward.
"If we were to only have dates and names, people may gloss over that," Peeples said. "We want people to remember our history."
