Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation tells the story of Massachusetts General Hospital across its two centuries of history. Exhibits trace the hospital’s important contributions to the medical field and show how its discoveries and advances have shaped medicine in the present, as well as how the hospital may continue to shape the future of medicine. The museum is part of the hospital in Boston.

Massachusetts General Hospital was founded in 1811 and is a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, one of the oldest and best-known hospitals in the country. It is famous as the site of the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia using ether in 1846, which took place in the surgical amphitheater now known as the Ether Dome. That event is one of the best-known milestones in American medicine.

What to Know

• The museum is listed as tour friendly, so groups can plan visits.
• It is named for Dr. Paul S. Russell, a longtime Massachusetts General Hospital surgeon.
• The museum is a Meet Boston partner attraction.