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- National Museum of Health and Medicine has been built to promote interest in medicine but more importantly on 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.
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- tel: +1 202 782 2200
- fax: +1 202 782 3573
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Address:
- 6900 Georgia Avenue and Elder Street
- AFIP, Building 54
- Washington, DC 20306
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- Daily 10a-5:30p
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