Downtown St. Paul Medical quackery exhibit

Questionable Medical Devices (Science Museum of MN)

Bob McCoy's old Museum of Questionable Medical Devices lives on inside the Science Museum as a permanent exhibit. A phrenology head reader, an Orgone Accumulator, the Kellogg Vibratory Chair, and other contraptions sold as medicine for a century.

Saves, regulars, and moments shape the Best of MPLS. Been-heres fill your Passport. Anonymous, never sold.

120 W Kellogg Blvd, St. Paul Get directions www.smm.org $$
How to visit: Inside Science Museum of Minnesota. General admission ticket. Tuesday through Sunday.
Hours
Sun10a–5p
Mon10a–5p
Tue10a–5p
Wed10a–5p
Thu10a–5p
Fri10a–8p
Sat10a–8p

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