This site is devoted to exploring the history of anesthesiology.
It originated as a physical collection—the Anesthesia Museum—housed within the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Rutgers University, located in the Clinical Academic Building, Suite 3100, 125 Patterson Street, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901.
On March 31st, 2025, the entire collection was donated to the Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology in Chicago, IL, after I was unable to secure a permanent home for it at Rutgers or within its Anesthesia Department, nor at any of the major academic anesthesia departments or museums I contacted throughout the Northeastern United States. I wanted to ensure that the collection would not fall into neglect or eventual dismantling, as so often happens to smaller collections.
All images and objects displayed on this website and in the Museum are the property of Enrique Pantin, M.D., unless otherwise noted.
This museum was designed to exist independently, and for that reason, we chose a free webpage model. As a result, advertisements may appear (revenue from these ads goes to WordPress, our excellent host).
All text in BLUE represents hyperlinks to additional information. Some images are also hyperlinked to related content.
The website includes several tabs and main sections, many of which contain submenus that appear when you hover your mouse over them.
🎧 Listen to the RWJUH Podcast “Medically Necessary” featuring the Anesthesia Museum.
You can learn more about many of the items once displayed in the museum by exploring this website or by downloading the Anesthesia Museum Guide. Within the guide, you can search for an item by title or image and access detailed information using either the QR code or the hyperlinked version.
The museum now exists solely as a virtual collection.
For inquiries, please contact:
📧 anesthesiamuseum@hotmail.com or pantin_enrique@hotmail.com
Modern anesthesia started here.
Important dates and discoveries in anesthesia.
Anesthesia Museum Contributors
First display of the Anesthesia Museum
Second display of the Anesthesia Museum, September 2020
Third display of the Anesthesia Museum, February 2021
