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The Small Museums at True Size: A Hospital's Museum

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The checklist's smallest named form — a hospital's museum, a family's museum, the collection too small for the main line — is searched here for Mishawaka and prints at the size of its result. No hospital in Mishawaka keeps a museum in the open record. St. Joseph Hospital's ninety years under the Poor Handmaids produced a nursing school, an archive of the congregation and the heritage the hospitals section carries, but no hospital museum or published heritage collection reaches this record — not in the hospital's own published history as the hospitals fragment read it, not in the Ancilla system's, not in Saint Joseph Regional's. The sisters' own keeping is real but seated elsewhere: the Mishawaka Franciscans' habit preserved at the University of Dayton's Marian Library, an item the museums fragment records, is a Mishawaka object in another institution's museum, the closest this record comes to the form. The settling record, if a hospital heritage collection exists, is the health system's own archive — Beacon Health System's and the Poor Handmaids' congregational archives at Donaldson — and until it is opened the entry stands as printed: the form was searched, in the hospitals' own tellings and the museum record both, and Mishawaka's hospitals kept their history in their congregations' archives and their buildings' courses, not in a museum of their own.

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Source: The Small Museums at True Size: A Hospital's Museum, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/museums/small-museums-at-true-size-a-hospital-s-museum/