Medicine’s Hall of Fame & Museum in Shawnee closes, plans to auction off artifacts - Shawnee Mission Post

After opening to the nationalist successful 2020, Shawnee’s brief-lived Medicine’s Hall of Fame & Museum is present officially closed.

What happened: After Bruce Hodges spent a beingness collecting aesculapian artifacts, his extremity of opening a depository dedicated to the aesculapian assemblage came to beingness successful aboriginal 2020 — conscionable arsenic the COVID-19 pandemic hit.

• Hodges opened successful the abstraction connected Lackman Road formerly occupied by the Johnson County Museum, earlier it moved to the Arts & Heritage Center connected Metcalf Avenue successful Overland Park.
• The pandemic meant Hodge’s aesculapian depository and hallway of fame couldn’t unfastened arsenic planned, starring to debased attendance and yet the closure, according to a caller property release.
• Read much astir the Medicine’s Hall of Fame and Museum’s communicative here.

Dr. Bruce Hodges, curator and laminitis of the museum. File photo

What they’re saying: “After years of preparing the museum’s exhibits, conscionable earlier it was acceptable to open, COVID-19 restrictions constricted the museum’s quality to afloat open,” the property merchandise reads. “Low attendance numbers created fiscal challenges that yet led to its closure.”

Where exactly? The depository was successful the erstwhile Johnson County Museum abstraction astatine 6305 Lackman Road.

What happens to Medicine’s Hall of Fame & Museum exhibits?

The museum’s much than 5,000 aesculapian artifacts volition beryllium auctioned disconnected online adjacent month, according to the property release.

Some of the items up for auction, arsenic outlined successful the property release, include:

• A 1940s pediatric robust lung utilized to dainty polio
• A Chippewa wood and rawhide medicine drum
• An 1880 Nigerian Yoruba people chieftain sash
• George Washington Presidential Peace medals from 1789 to 1795
• Rare apothecary bottles and jars

More details: The auction volition beryllium conducted by the Mayo Auction & Realty of Belton, Mo., according to the release.

• Photos and descriptions volition beryllium posted online here.
• In-person previews volition beryllium from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. connected Friday, Nov. 4 astatine the museum.
• Online bidding ends connected Monday, Nov. 7, according to the release.