The Oregon State Hospital Museum of Mental Health is a participating Cultural Non-Profit with the Oregon Cultural Trust. Making a donation to the museum and a matching donation to the Oregon Cultural Trust [...]
The following is a transcribed staff list from the Biennial Report of the Oregon State Insane Asylum for the Biennium covering the years 1908 -1910. The list includes information on staff members, their positions, and [...]
The following report of the Florist Department at the Oregon State Hospital was taken from the 22nd Biennial Report of the Oregon State Hospital for the biennium ending September 30, 1926. The work of this [...]
It is hard to imagine, but when the Oregon State Hospital was built, it stood in farmland about half a mile outside the city limits of Salem. The route between town and the hospital would, [...]
Source: A Survey of the State Mental Institutions of Oregon. Washington, D.C.: United States Public Health Service, 1940. […]
The following is an inventory list made of drugs housed in the drug room and various other sectors of the Oregon State Hospital as of June 30, 1931. The list appears as part of a [...]
The device pictured to the right is a suppository making machine. It, along with two additional molds, were found in a case that was moved from the old Fairview Hospital to OSH when Fairview was [...]
The following is an article from the May 1958 edition of The Suggestor, a newsletter published by the Oregon State Employee Awards Board. Congratulations, Mr. Mommsen! After switching his attention from cutting meat to cutting [...]
The Mid Columbia Home (aka Columbia Park Hospital and Training Center, Columbia Park Home) was Oregon’s first hospital devoted exclusively to chronically ill and geriatric patients.1 In 1959, the Oregon [...]