What's Happening in Lancaster, OH…

Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster is celebrating its 100th anniversary, and in conjunction with this milestone, the Ohio Glass Museum has opened an exhibit called ‘The Picture of Health’.

The the new exhibit points out the importance of glass to the field of medicine, and includes several items that have been loaned to the museum by the medical center. Others who are lending interesting items to the museum are Verylene Summers of Summer House Antiques, Harold Schorr (a retired pharmacist), and the American Scientific Glassblowers Society.

Among the items on display are pill bottles made of glass, laboratory items, and an optometrist's lenses. One of the most unusual exhibits is the glass skeleton of a four-year-old boy. Made in 2008, the model shows all the arteries and veins in the child's body. Bill Eckman, the director of the museum, said he had never seen anything similar in his career.

Eckman was the mastermind behind the exhibit. He thought it would be interesting to have a combined exhibit in conjunction with the medical center. Eckman worked with Lou Varga, who is on the board of both the glass museum and the hospital, to make his idea a reality.

There are cards explaining the exhibits throughout the museum. In addition to these, museum officials could work with a brochure printing company on a booklet that explains the entire exhibit.

‘The Picture of Health’ runs through August 31, 2016.