National Museum of Health and Medicine
The new NMHM facility, which opened on September 15, 2011. | |
Location within Maryland | |
| Established | 1862 (new building, 2011) |
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| Location | 2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, Maryland |
| Coordinates | 39°0′32″N 77°3′14″W / 39.00889°N 77.05389°W |
| Type | Medicine, Military medicine |
| Visitors | 40,000–50,000 annually |
| Public transit access | Forest Glen |
| Website | medicalmuseum |
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.