Topic ID #19759 - posted 5/21/2012 2:46 AM
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Walter Reed medical museum reopening in Md.
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
Walter Reed medical museum reopening in Md.
By Patricia Kime - Staff writer Posted : Sunday May 20, 2012 15:39:20 EDT
The bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln has a new home. The National Museum of Health and Medicine opens Monday in Silver Spring, Md., two years after shutting its doors on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and 150 years to the day after it was established as the Army Medical Museum by Army Surgeon General William Hammond.
The new facility showcases many of the artifacts from the old museum, including favorites like the bones of Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles’ leg, shot through with a cannonball at Gettysburg in 1863; a giant hairball taken from the stomach of a 12-year-old; and a sliver of President Ulysses S. Grant’s throat tumor.
Read more here.
By Patricia Kime - Staff writer Posted : Sunday May 20, 2012 15:39:20 EDT
The bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln has a new home. The National Museum of Health and Medicine opens Monday in Silver Spring, Md., two years after shutting its doors on the grounds of Walter Reed Army Medical Center and 150 years to the day after it was established as the Army Medical Museum by Army Surgeon General William Hammond.
The new facility showcases many of the artifacts from the old museum, including favorites like the bones of Maj. Gen. Daniel Sickles’ leg, shot through with a cannonball at Gettysburg in 1863; a giant hairball taken from the stomach of a 12-year-old; and a sliver of President Ulysses S. Grant’s throat tumor.
Read more here.
|
Next topic: "1,600 museums offer troops free tickets" |
|
Previous topic: "Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history" |
|
Looking for something else? Show recent posts in News |
