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National Museum of Health and Medicine

6900 Georgia Ave Nw, Washington, DC 20012 Get directions Cross Streets: Near the intersection of Georgia Ave NW and Main Dr/Butternut St NW
38.973852 -77.027055
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About:National Museum of Health and Medicine has been built to promote an interest in medicine but more importantly in the armed forces and medicine. With a vast collection of over 24,000 objects, the museum tries to show to the visitor how diseases effect the body. Exhibits include diseased body parts, foreign items removed from the body, skeletons etc. Admission is free to the museum, but groups are charged. The museum also has a gift shop that sells books, collectibles and jewelery. Lectures are held in May every year on forensic anthropology. The museum also rents space for events, training courses, party and reception. There are walk-in tours, general tours, human body tours, civil war tour, forensics mystery etc.
Hours:Mo to Su from 10:00am to 05:30pm
Categories:Tourist Attractions, All Entertainers, Art Museums & Galleries
Parking:Free
Other Contact Info:Fax: 202 782 3573
Email: nmhminfo@afip.osd.mil
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  1. User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    by Gwendolyn
    05/27/2007
    For All You Medical Fanatics: My father dragged me through this museum which would have been much more fun had he not had to stop and tell me the anatomy of the specimen being exibited.
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