Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Welcome to the National Museum of health and medicine. A special couple of other things to show you. The National Museum of health and museum was known as the Army Medical Museum. The mission at the time was to collect specimens of human anatomy. To send them to washington for care and preservation. Staff doing the business of Lessons Learned theyre trying to understand the nature of battlefield surgery and trauma and share those lessons with their colleagues in counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection started during the war and in nearly days museum is housed at the Surgeon Generals office and actually the first few Museum Artifacts were on the shelf behind the Surgeon Generals desk. That is the Riggs Building your the white house. It 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 movi