Disturbing. Mr. Clarke welcome to the National Museum of house and medicine. I am tim clarke, im the museums deputy director. Were here to spend a little museums civil war medicine exhibit and a special show of other things to you. The National Museum of health founded in 1852 and we were known as the Army Medical Museum. The mission at the time was to of morbid cimens anatomy and to send them to washington for care and to ervation and study improve the care of the soldier. So at the time of the civil war, the museums staff were doing learned. Ness of lessons they were trying to understand the nature of battlefield, surgery, medicine and trauma and share those lessons with their colleagues and counterparts on the battlefield. This museum and its collection in ted during the war and the early days, the museum was housed in the Surgeon Generals office. Actually, the first Museum Artifacts were actually on a surgeon ind the generals desk, and then in a building that we know today as build
Shipping and handling. To look at items spanning over 150 years of existence. Civil war collection. Some viewers may find images in this program disturbing. Mr. Clarke hello, and welcome to the National Museum of health and medicine. My name is tim clarke and i am the museums deputy director. We are here to give you a short tour of the highlights of the museum. It was founded in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum. Our Mission Today is very much the same. It is to collect objects that shed light on the value of military medicine and preserve the legacy of american medicine. What we will show you today are highlights of the Museum Collections from the last 150 years in areas of military medicine, Human Anatomy and pathology, forensic identification, biomedical engineering, and a special few artifacts we have on display here. So, come along. We start our tour today with this object, the floor of what was known as trauma bay 2 from a hospital in iraq. From 2003 until 2007, during the height o
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
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