Museums
History BuffLightner Museum
Under $25Browse Gilded Age collections, mechanical music machines and a Victorian science room inside Henry Flagler's 1887 Hotel Alcazar in downtown St. Augustine.
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Spanish Military Hospital Museum
A guided museum in St. Augustine that shows 18th-century Spanish colonial medicine through live demonstrations of surgery and apothecary work.
3 Aviles Street, St. Augustine, FL 32084 · St. Augustine, FL
About Spanish Military Hospital Museum
The museum in St. Augustine, Florida, covers medical practice during the Second Spanish Period (1784-1821). Visitors join a guided tour of about 45 minutes that includes live demonstrations of colonial surgery and apothecary methods, and the tour explains how physicians used herbal remedies alongside early surgical skill. The tour also includes a visit to a medicinal herb garden behind the building. The site is on Aviles Street, which is often described as the oldest street in the continental United States. Tours run through the day, and the museum has a gift shop and offers group rates for groups of 15 or more.
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