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National Museum of Health and Medicine
Museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other military medical museums, see Army Medical Museum.
The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.[1] The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) in 1862;[2] it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011.[3] An element of the Defense Health Agency[4] (DHA), the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium.[5]
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![]() The new NMHM facility, which opened on September 15, 2011. | |
Established | 1862 (new building, 2011) |
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Location | 2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Maryland |
Coordinates | 39°0′32″N 77°3′14″W |
Type | Medicine, Military medicine |
Visitors | 40,000–50,000 annually |
Public transit access | ![]() |
Website | medicalmuseum |
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