Institution: Oskar Diethelm Library, Weill Cornell Medicine
Event Title: Psychic Collections Tour, Oskar Diethelm Library
Location: 525 East 68th Street New York, NY 10065
Event Format: In Person Tour
Event Date: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Event Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Please join us for tours focusing on the psychic collections of the Oskar Diethelm Library on October 27th at 11am, 1pm, and 3pm, with topics including palmistry, spiritualism, mesmerism and animal magnetism, seances, ESP, telepathy, and hypnosis. The Oskar Diethelm Library, part of Weill Cornell Medical College's DeWitt Wallace Institute of Psychiatry, is a special collections library devoted to the history of psychiatry. Comprising approximately 35,00 titles, the collection has strengths in psychiatry, psychology, psychoanalysis, mesmerism, spiritualism, phrenology, witchcraft and related topics, with titles stretching as far back as the 15th century.
Please RSVP to nrt4001@med.cornell.edu. Each time slot is limited to 10 people, and directions to the library are available here.
Registration Note: Please RSVP to nrt4001@med.cornell.edu.
Public Contact: Nicole Topich, nrt4001@med.cornell.edu
