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 1997_DC_NMHMDC | 6 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) |
| 2005_DC_NMHMDC | 33 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) |
| 2007_DC_NMHMDC | 45 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) |
| 2008_DC_NMHMDC | 37 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) |
| 2009_DC_NMHMDC | 20 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) |
| 2010_DC_NMHMDC | 19 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) |
| 2011_DC_NMHMDC | 46 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) |
| 2008_DC_NMHMDC_BS_080114 | 19 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Event: Backstage Tour |
| 2009_DC_Barnard_091205 | 36 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Event: Bryn Barnard
The Art and Science of "OUTBREAK: Plagues that Changed History" with the artist Bryn Barnard
Bryn Barnard, author and artist of "OUTBREAK," will host three exciting programs, including an illustration workshop and a special session aimed at younger audiences.
10:00 a.m.: Writing and Illustrating... |
| 2009_DC_Macaulay_090613 | 76 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Event: David Macaulay
David Macaulay, Author Talk and Book Signing:
Join David Macaulay for a discussion about his new book, The Way We Work, as he illuminates the most important machine of all — the human body. Your body is made up of various complex systems, and Macaulay is a master at making the complex understandable.... |
| 2005_DC_NMHMDC_Visibly | 2 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: A Healthy Heart (Visibly Human)
A description of the "A Healthy Heart" exhibit from http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/healthyheart.html :
The National Museum of Health and Medicine has opened the exhibit "A Healthy Heart,” based on a book called, “The Invision Guide to a Healthy Heart,” by Alexander Tsiaras. The exhibit, which... |
| 2008_DC_NMHMDC_Visibly | 5 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: A Healthy Heart (Visibly Human)
A description of the "A Healthy Heart" exhibit from http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/healthyheart.html :
The National Museum of Health and Medicine has opened the exhibit "A Healthy Heart,” based on a book called, “The Invision Guide to a Healthy Heart,” by Alexander Tsiaras. The exhibit, which... |
| 2005_DC_NMHMDC_Korea | 1 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Blood, Sweat and Saline (Korean War Medicine) |
| 2007_DC_NMHMDC_Korea | 4 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Blood, Sweat and Saline (Korean War Medicine) |
| 2010_DC_NMHMDC_Korea | 1 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Blood, Sweat and Saline (Korean War Medicine) |
| 2011_DC_NMHMDC_Korea | 19 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Blood, Sweat and Saline (Korean War Medicine) |
| 2007_DC_NMHMDC_Smoking | 55 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Cartoonists Take Up Smoking
The museum hosted an evening symposium to highlight its new exhibit “Cartoonists Take Up Smoking,” with attendees at the 13th annual World Conference on Tobacco or Health as its invited guests. The event, entitled, “Thank you for Smiling: An evening of humor and satire,” was presented by Dr. Alan Blum,... |
| 1997_DC_NMHMDC_CW | 5 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2005_DC_NMHMDC_CW | 11 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2007_DC_NMHMDC_CW | 22 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2008_DC_NMHMDC_CW | 17 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2009_DC_NMHMDC_CW | 29 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2011_DC_NMHMDC_CW | 56 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2005_DC_NMHMDC_Microscopes | 4 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Evolution of the Microscope |
| 2007_DC_NMHMDC_Microscopes | 6 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Evolution of the Microscope |
| 2008_DC_NMHMDC_Microscopes | 4 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Evolution of the Microscope |
| 2009_DC_NMHMDC_Microscopes | 26 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Evolution of the Microscope |
| 2011_DC_NMHMDC_Microscopes | 8 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Evolution of the Microscope |
| 2008_DC_NMHMDC_Expression | 10 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Expression of Hope
A description of the "Expression of Hope" exhibit from http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/news/news.html
"Expression of Hope" exhibit opens:
“I am ten years old and have MPS I. My painting of a dragon expresses the courage that everyone needs when they have MPS.” Artist Nicklas Harkins describes his... |
| 1997_DC_NMHMDC_Lincoln | 6 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: His Wound is Mortal: The Final Hours of President Abraham Lincoln |
| 2005_DC_NMHMDC_Lincoln | 6 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: His Wound is Mortal: The Final Hours of President Abraham Lincoln |
| 2007_DC_NMHMDC_Lincoln | 2 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: His Wound is Mortal: The Final Hours of President Abraham Lincoln |
| 2008_DC_NMHMDC_Lincoln | 1 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: His Wound is Mortal: The Final Hours of President Abraham Lincoln |
| 2009_DC_NMHMDC_Lincoln | 15 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: His Wound is Mortal: The Final Hours of President Abraham Lincoln |
| 2011_DC_NMHMDC_Lincoln | 19 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: His Wound is Mortal: The Final Hours of President Abraham Lincoln |
| 2011_DC_NMHMDC_History | 20 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: History of the Medical Museum |
| 2007_DC_NMHMDC_Being | 6 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Human Body, Human Being |
| 2009_DC_NMHMDC_Being | 1 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Human Body, Human Being |
| 2009_DC_NMHMDC_Barnard | 6 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Outbreak: Plagues that Changed History: Bryn Barnard |
| 2008_DC_NMHMDC_ID_Dead | 1 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Resolved: Advances in Forensic Identification of U.S. War Dead |
| 2009_DC_NMHMDC_ID_Dead | 22 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Resolved: Advances in Forensic Identification of U.S. War Dead |
| 2011_DC_NMHMDC_ID_Dead | 1 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Resolved: Advances in Forensic Identification of U.S. War Dead |
| 2007_DC_NMHMDC_Scarred | 1 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Scarred for Life |
| 2009_DC_NMHMDC_Trauma_Bay | 5 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Trauma Bay II (Iraq) |
| 2011_DC_NMHMDC_Trauma_Bay | 7 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Trauma Bay II (Iraq) |
| 2008_DC_NMHMDC_Whitman | 2 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Walt Whitman's Soldiers |
| 2009_DC_NMHMDC_Whitman | 1 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Walt Whitman's Soldiers |
| 2011_DC_NMHMDC_Whitman | 1 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Walt Whitman's Soldiers |
| 2010_DC_NMHMDC_Wounded | 36 | DC -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Walter Reed) -- Exhibit: Wounded in Action |
| 2011_MD_NMHM | 24 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) |
| 2012_MD_NMHM | 130 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) |
| 2013_MD_NMHM | 28 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) |
| 2014_MD_NMHM | 4 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) |
| 2015_MD_NMHM | 5 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) |
| 2016_MD_NMHM | 33 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) |
| 2018_MD_NMHM | 8 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) |
| 2019_MD_NMHM | 23 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex)
The new touchable brain piece has been added to the galleries. Also the guys at the desk suggested the sidewalks were in the shape of a scalpel. Someone else said the building was designed to look like a surgical cut. |
| 2021_MD_NMHM | 10 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) |
| 2023_MD_NMHM | 6 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) |
| 2023_MD_NMHM_Bugs_230610 | 104 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Event: Bugapalooza 2023
2023 Bugapalooza
Kick off the Military Health System's 2023 Bug Week and join NMHM staff and DoD presenters to discover which bugs are bizarre, beneficial, or downright deadly. Learn how to battle the bugs or use them to your advantage. This program is free and open to the public for all ages. Bug... |
| 2012_MD_NMHM_Open_120521 | 14 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Event: Opening Day |
| 2019_MD_NMHM_Flu | 41 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: 100 Years Ago: October-November 1918
100 Years Ago: October-November 1918
The End of World War I, and the Worldwide Flu Pandemic of 1918 |
| 2012_MD_NMHM_Reconstruction | 26 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Advances: Reconstruction |
| 2024_02_16B2_NMHM_AfriAmer_Med | 29 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: African Americans in Military Medicine |
| 2024_02_16B1_NMHM_Audiology | 26 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Audiology Hearing Aids |
| 2019_MD_NMHM_Bugs | 34 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Bug Week
Including the chalk markings outside. |
| 2011_MD_NMHM_CW | 12 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2012_MD_NMHM_CW | 38 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2013_MD_NMHM_CW | 6 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2014_MD_NMHM_CW | 28 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2015_MD_NMHM_CW | 117 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Civil War
"Medical and Surgical History" to be featured in new temporary exhibit
The Army Medical Museum, nearly from the time of its founding in 1862, was engaged in an innovative effort to collect, collate and share the lessons of battlefield medicine during the course of the Civil War. The grandest effort... |
| 2016_MD_NMHM_CW | 13 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2019_MD_NMHM_CW | 15 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Civil War |
| 2013_MD_NMHM_Einstein | 20 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Einstein Brain
Einstein Brain Atlas App and Gallery Installation:
NMHM is engaged in a collaborative agreement with the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago (NMHMChicago). NMHMChicago recently performed digital scans of Dr. Harvey's slide sets. The Chicago team contributed a complete set of the new digital... |
| 2019_MD_NMHM_Einstein | 20 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Einstein Brain (What Can We Learn From a Brain?) |
| 2015_MD_NMHM_Lincoln | 24 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: His Wound is Mortal: The Final Hours of President Abraham Lincoln
Medical care during President Abraham Lincoln's final hours to be commemorated in new exhibit opening March 2, 2015
SILVER SPRING, Md. - "His Wound Is Mortal: The Final Hours of President Abraham Lincoln," a temporary exhibition at the National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) featuring artifacts... |
| 2019_MD_NMHM_HShips | 132 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Hospital Ships
Come visit our new exhibit, “United States Hospital Ships”! This exhibit, open now through mid-March, 2020, explores the history of hospital ships and includes our ship models of the USAHS J.K. Barnes and D.A. January, and loans of the USS Solace (AH-2), the USS Solace (AH-5), and the USS Comfort... |
| 2012_MD_NMHM_Identifying | 3 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Identifying Human Remains |
| 2019_MD_NMHM_Identifying | 57 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Identifying Human Remains |
| 2018_MD_NMHM_Viet | 15 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Medical Advancements of Vietnam War |
| 2019_MD_NMHM_Sharks | 19 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Shark Week |
| 2023_MD_NMHM_Malaria | 19 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: The Battle Against Malaria |
| 2024_02_16B3_NMHM_George | 4 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Thermal Manikin |
| 2019_MD_NMHM_Invisible | 67 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: Visual Voices of the Invisible Wounds of War |
| 2013_MD_NMHM_WHACKed | 12 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: WHACK'ed (Traumatic Brain Injury)
Traumatic Brain Injury Exhibit:
In May 2012, NMHM opened a new exhibit that features TBIs. The installation showcases actual human brain specimens that demonstrate a variety of brain injuries, including hemorrhages, blunt force trauma and bullet wounds. Many of the specimens featured in the exhibit... |
| 2018_MD_NMHM_WWI | 72 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: World War I Chemical Warfare |
| 2019_MD_NMHM_WWI | 79 | MD -- Silver Spring -- Natl Museum of Health and Medicine (Forest Glen Annex) -- Exhibit: World War I Chemical Warfare |