Showing posts with label Glore Psychiatric Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glore Psychiatric Museum. Show all posts

Thursday, November 19, 2009

One Flew East, One Flew West

So... The GLORE PSYCHIATRIC MUSEUM. Located in sunny St. Joseph, MO. Curvacia and I made a pilgrimage three or four years back to investigate. Here are the pictures to prove it.

(BACKGROUND: The Glore is housed in a former state mental hospital. Half of the grounds have been converted for museum space, the other half is now a minimum security prison. There used to be a thrift store in the basement, but unfortunately it was no longer in business at the time of this visit. And I think the use of old department store mannequins in the shock therapy displays seems positively Lynchian, don't you?)


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This collection of nails, buttons, and safety pins was removed from an inmates stomach, post-mortem:
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