The Museum

Professor Stefanos Geroulanos inspired and was inspired by the Museum of Medicine of the University of Zurich. The beginnings of the whole project can be traced back to his return from Switzerland to Greece and with the mediation of Professor George Daikos, he became a member of the Association of Friends of the Museum of Greek Medicine, with the common goal and vision of establishing the Museum of Greek Medicine. The M.I.I.P.I. would house “those amazing objects that reflect the evolution of Greek medicine throughout the centuries and remained hidden in the basements of Archaeological Museums”. Professor Stefanos Geroulanos had his first contact with the History of Medicine in his early student years, when he first worked with the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Zurich. His record also includes his personal struggles to prevent the demolition of the current building of the Museum of the History of Medicine in Zurich. A historic building in which five Nobel Prize-winning professors, including Albert Einstein and many ‘holy monsters’ of science had taught. The legacy and the crowning achievement of the Professor of History of Medicine at the University of Ioannina, with his election to this position, is reflected and completed in the science he serves. This vision, for Professor Stephanos Geroulanos, has four axes. A History of Medicine Museum, a Historical Medical Library, a Medicinal Plant Garden and a “good successor!” The M.I.I.P.I. began to be established in 1977, with the main objective of presenting elements of the past of Greek Medicine-emphasizing foreign influences-to students of the School, and of other University Departments. By extension, of course, to students and pupils of all levels.