The museum features settings depicting a doctor’s office, a pharmacy, an operating room, and a wardroom. These settings reflect doctor-patient activities taking place as they would have in the 1800’s or early 1900’s. Additional displays show the early hardships of medical care, present human-interest stories and pictures of Foothills doctors and medical facilities over the period, and acknowledge associated health skills such as nursing, dentistry, and ethnic treatments. Permanent and visiting collections of medical artifacts, including implements, equipment, furnishings, pharmaceuticals and bottles, and advertising and other ephemera, are on display in cabinets. A favorite display is the folklore, potions, and multitude of strange gadgets we today call medical quackery.

The museum is intended to be interesting and educational to non-medical people, especially youth, while staying technically accurate and complete. Interactive displays, video and audio systems, and time lines and storyboards are being developed to bring medical history to life. A carriage house with an authentic doctor’s buggy inside stands near the museum.