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National Museum of Health and Medicine
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) in 1862; it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011. An element of the Defense Health Agency (DHA), the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium.
The new NMHM facility, which opened on September 15, 2011.
The new NMHM facility, which opened on September 15, 2011.
The Army Medical Museum and Library building housed the Army Medical Museum from 1887 to 1947 – and again from 1962 to 1969, when the building was raz
The Army Medical Museum and Library building housed the Army Medical Museum from 1887 to 1947 – and again from 1962 to 1969, when the building was razed.
The former NMHM building (actually the basement of the AFIP building) on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) garrison, Washington, D.C., where
The former NMHM building (actually the basement of the AFIP building) on the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) garrison, Washington, D.C., where it was housed from 1971 to 2011.
A typical display case at the museum. Clockwise from top right: the skeleton of Able, a rhesus macaque who was among the first primates ever to be sen
A typical display case at the museum. Clockwise from top right: the skeleton of Able, a rhesus macaque who was among the first primates ever to be sent to space; a box containing the tumor that killed Ulysses S. Grant, sectioned; a hand-cranked surgical saw used for cutting through bone in amputations, etc.; and a gilded skull, the first item in the museum's catalogue – original owner unknown.
Silver Spring, Maryland
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Silver Spring is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, near Washington, D.C. Although officially unincorporated, it is an edge city with a population of 81,015 at the 2020 census, making it the fifth-most populous place in Maryland after Baltimore, Columbia, Germantown, and Waldorf.
Clockwise from top: AFI Silver, Veteran's Plaza and the civic building, Downtown Silver Spring from the Metro station, Acorn Park, Baltimore and Ohio
Clockwise from top: AFI Silver, Veteran's Plaza and the civic building, Downtown Silver Spring from the Metro station, Acorn Park, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station
The Silver Spring Armory, constructed in 1917 by E. Brooke Lee
The Silver Spring Armory, constructed in 1917 by E. Brooke Lee
Silver Spring in 1979
Silver Spring in 1979
Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza in June 2012
Silver Spring Civic Building and Veterans Plaza in June 2012