This Philadelphia Hospital Will Become A Museum For America's 250th Birthday In 2026

CBS Philadelphia

February 17, 2026

As celebrations continue for America's 250th birthday this year, the country's oldest hospital will become Philadelphia's newest museum.

Pennsylvania Hospital was founded 25 years before the birth of the nation, and it continues to be on the cutting edge of medicine.

"We're the first chartered hospital in the nation," Stacey Peeples, the lead archivist and museum curator at the Pennsylvania Hospital Museum, said. "We have great fortune to turn 275 the same year that the country is turning 250 years old."

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