Chimborazo Medical Museum (Richmond, Virginia)

Chimborazo became of one of the Civil War's largest military hospitals. When completed it contained more than 100 wards, a bakery and even a brewery. Although the hospital no longer exists, a museum on the same grounds contains original medical instruments and personal artifacts. Other displays included a scale model of the hospital and a short film on medical and surgical practices and the caregivers that comforted the sick and wounded.

3215 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23223
Richmond National Battlefield Park
www.nps.gov/rich/