National Museum of Health and Medicine
Museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, US
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The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. 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 2012. An element of the Defense Health Agency (DHA), the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium.
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