Texas Medical Association Austin, Texas

Mailing Address

401 West 15th Street
Austin, TX 78701

Street Address

401 West 15th Street
Austin, TX 78701

Phone: 512-370-1552
Fax: 512-370-1634
Email:

Related Links

www.texmed.org/liy/default.asp

Admissions

Free

History

The History of Medicine Committee was appointed in March 1989, with the charge to develop an exhibits area and to produce historical displays for a new building that was to be completed in June 1991.

By the time the building was dedicated in July 1991, the Committee had its first exhibit, entitled Technology in Medicine: 150 Years of Innovation, in place. To highlight the exhibit, the museum successfully secured a loan from the Smithsonian Institute for the first artificial heart model designed by Dr. Denton Cooley.

At the Texas Medical Association (TMA) Fall Leadership Conference in 1991, the Committee presented a long-range plan to the Board of Trustees. The approval of this plan by the Board demonstrated support for the program. Subsequently, the Board appropriated a budget for the next year to produce three to four original exhibits using the artifacts and materials housed within the TMA Library. Currently, this collection includes over 1,000 medically related artifacts, over 5,000 photographs, and approximately 1,000 books and printed material dating pre-1900.

Ongoing projects include inventory and cataloguing the collection and organizing the printed materials into a workable arrangement that can be accessed as needed.

The library also offers a genealogical research service for persons interested in finding information on physicians who were located in Texas from the early 1800's. The library is the repository of the TMA membership archives for noncurrent files from 1853 to the present.

As the library becomes more automated, plans include the cataloguing of the artifact and historical collection as well. Cleaning, conservation, preservation, and exhibiting are a few of the areas that the Resource Sharing Project could benefit the museum. In exchange, the museum would gladly share its educational program(s) on the history of medicine. It is in the process of beginning a travelling exhibit program. In 1995, Dr. Elgin Ware, Dallas, established the Elgin W. Ware, Jr./Texas Medical Association Collection of prints and drawings at the Blanton Museum of Art on the UT campus for public education of the profound connections between medicine, art, and print making from the renaissance to the present.

Artifacts Collections

Medical reference books, journals, 1,000 artifacts.

Research Collections

Transactions of the state association from 1853-present; available for research by appointment.

Library

Open to general public, students, scholars; 40,000 volumes books and bound journals, 800 periodical titles, 450 A.V.s; circulates print materials; no appointment necessary; can assist with inter-library loans.

Visual reference collection: slides, videos, audiotapes; 1% of permanent collection visually documented.

Contact Library about rights and reproduction; duplication fees run photocopy = $.10 per page; photo duplicate - cost varies.

Appointment required: False

Services




Publications

TMA publishes Texas Medicine 12 times per year; exhibition catalogues/ flyers

Facilities

Library - 8,368 square feet total; museum - 1,000 square feet total; 1,000 square feet exhibition area; 200-person auditorium, lecture hall, and performance area; wheelchair-accessible

Programs

p>Docent program, gallery tours, special exhibits; exhibits available for loan.

Staff

Patty Mullins, Special Collections Coordinator
Phone: 512-370-1552 x1552

Nancy Reynolds, Library Director
Phone: 512-370-1552 x1540

Lorie Cox, Assistant Library Director
Phone: 512-370-1552 x1541


Museum Type

Library
Specialized

Governance

Type: 501 (c) (3)



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