The Rose Melnick Medical Museum interprets its collections through permanent and changing exhibitions that blend an interesting combination of artifacts, historic images, period advertisements, graphics, audiovisual materials, and even full-scale re-creations to highlight the development and evolution of medicine over the centuries. Exhibits discuss a number of fascinating topics that include information on medical practices and procedures, the proliferation and treatment of diseases, and developments and discoveries in science and technology. In order to capture the ever-evolving role of medicine in society, some areas of the exhibit gallery are rotated and some items are displayed on a temporary basis.

Permanent Exhibits (Currently on Display):

• 200 Years of Health Care: Medicine in the Mahoning Valley, 1801-2001
  
• The Great American Fraud: Quacks and Quackery in America
  
• Life in the "Lung": Polio and the Modern Respirator
  
• The Doctor Dissected: Twelve Medical Caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson
  
• A New Kind of Ray: Roentgen and the Development of the X-Ray
  
• Recreations:
  • 1905 Doctor's Office
  • 1930 Doctor's Office
  • 1895 Dentist's Office
  • 1935 Dentist's Office
  • Turn-of-the-Century Pharmacy
  • 1925 Operating Room

Permanent Exhibits (In Progress):

• The Tools of the Trade: Medical Instrumentation, Its History, and Uses
• First Aid and the Factory: Industrial Medicine in the Steel Valley
• Light, Heat, and Electricity: Rehabilitation Equipment and the Rise of Physical Therapy
• What Lies Ahead?: The Future of Medicine

Special Exhibits:

• When the President is the Patient