A free museum and library exploring health and human experience.

The scope of objects in Smithsonian collections is staggering—from ancient Chinese bronzes to the Star-Spangled Banner; from a 3.5 billion-year-old fossil to the Apollo lunar landing module; from the ruby slippers featured in The Wizard of Oz to presidential memorabilia.

From Western Case Reserve University, Dittrick Medical History Center.

A privately funded museum in Viena, Austria.

Explore historical medical advice and contraception research through digitized medical journals and manuals.

The Venereal Disease Visual History Archive is a project to present and make available visual culture materials related to syphilis and gonorrhea from the first half of the twentieth century that are currently scattered among different digital and traditional archives. The primary focus is on sources related to the popular campaign to “stamp out” venereal disease in the 1930s and 1940s.

An older site from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, one of the major centers of American eugenics, this collection includes primary sources including letters, photographs, publications, and more.

Digitized copies of the hugely influential women's health book "Our Bodies Ourselves" (1970), as well as later editions, translations, other publications from the Boston Women's Health Group Collective, media clippings, and more.