Series, reel america featuring films from the 1930s through the 1970s. Cspan3 created by the cabletv industry and funded by your local provider. Like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Announcer each week, american artifacts takes viewers into Historic Sites around the country. Next, we visit the National Museum of health and medicine just outside washington, d. C. , to look at items in their civil war collection. Please note, some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Mr. Clarke welcome. Im tim clarke and im the museums Deputy Director and we are spending time on the civil war medicine exhibit and special other things to show you. The National Museum of health and medicine was founded in 1862. We were known then as the Army Medical Museum and the mission was to collect specimens of morbid anatomy and send them to washington to study to improve the care of the soldier. At the time of the civil war the museums staff were doing the business of Lessons Learned. They we
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Campaign finance that took place at the Constitution Center. You can watch it tonight in its entirety at 8 00 eastern on our companion network, cspan. [inaudible conversations] and taking you live today to the Heritage Foundation for an update on the Global Response to ebola and the defense departments role in fighting the disease. This should be getting under way shortly. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] we ready . [background sounds] good afternoon welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our Louis Lehrman auditorium. We, of course welcome those who join us on our heritage. Org web site. Would ask everyone here in house if youll be so kind to make that last courtesy check that your cell phones have been turned off. Its always appreciated. We will, of course, post the program on the heritage home page following todays presentation for everyones future reference and our internet viewers are always welcome to send questions or comments, simply emailing speaker heritage.
The National Museum of health and medicine was founded in 1862 and known as the Army Medical Museum and the mission was to collect specimens of morbid anatomy and send them to washington to study to improve the care of the soldier. At the time of the civil war the museums staff were doing the business of Lessons Learned. They were trying to understand the nature of Battlefield Medicine, and trauma and share it with their counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals office. The first artifacts were on a shelf and in a building that we know as the Riggs Bank Building near the white house. But wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before moving to what became the National Mall in a building built in the 1880 that we family call the old red brick in a buildi
Medicine, and trauma and share it with their counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals office. The first artifacts were on a shelf and in a building that we know as the Riggs Bank Building near the white house. But wasnt until after the tragic events of the assassination of president lincoln that the museum moved into its first longterm residence and moved into fords theater before moving to what became the National Mall in a building built in the 1880 that that we familiarly call the old red brick. A building that is no longer there, but was in the location where the gallery is today. And the museum moved in 1968 from its now former location on the National Mall to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in washington, d. C. , where it was housed for years before moving to silver spring, where we are today. The museum today is a museum of 25 million objects. Most of those are in f