Images of National Museum of Health and Medicine
National Museum of Health and Medicine and its collection
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine ( NMHM ) is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland , near Washington, DC . The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum ( AMM ) in 1862; it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011. An element of the Defense Health Agency (DHA), the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium.