Silver Spring, Maryland: National Museum of Health and Medicine
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- Address:
- 2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD
- Directions:
- South of I-495 Beltway, exit 31 south onto Hwy 97, turn right/west onto Seminary Rd, which becomes Linden Lane. Turn left into US Army Forest Glen Annex.
- Hours:
- W-Su 10-5:30 (Call to verify)
- Phone:
- 301-319-3300
- Admission:
- Free, donations welcome.
- RA Rates:
- The Best
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A great medical museum of arcane specimens. Where else can you see the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln and a human hairball? Nowhere else, that's where.
Roadsideamerica.com Report..."A Hello to Arms" - Our terrible swift tour of Civil War body parts. Major General Daniel Sickles lost a leg during the Battle of Gettysburg when a cannonball struck. See the smashed leg bone at the National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Roadsideamerica.com Report...National Museum of Health and Medicine:
There's only one collection in the world that showcases both a human hairball and the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln -- and it's also an official American National Historic Landmark.
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Among the artifacts on exhibit: a human hairball and an esophagus that choked on steak; the bullet that killed President Abraham Lincoln; a wooden box with slides of President Ulysses S. Grant's cancerous tumor; and President James Garfield's vertebrae, pierced by the bullet of another assassin.
[Kurt Deion / kurtshistoricsites.com, 02/20/2025]Very interesting museum. Many plastination human organs, examples of human anatomy, and injuries from gunshot wounds. Section of military medicine and the actual bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln.
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