Events Calendar

Your body is an amazing work of art! Each month, the National Museum of Health and Medicine will focus on a different organ. In June, learn about basic lung function and diseases that affect the lungs. Explore anatomy, medical imaging techniques used to examine the lungs, and pathology. After a brief lesson, attendees will create their own visual representation of the lungs. All participants will receive a wearable button featuring the Organ of the Month after each program. Attend each program and collect them all! Open to the public. Recommended for students in third through eighth grade. Reservations required; limited to 20 participants. For reservations and more information, call 301-319-3325 or email medicalmuseum@amedd.army.mil

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Your body is an amazing work of art! Each month, the National Museum of Health and Medicine will focus on a different organ. In July, learn about how your eyes function and diseases that affect the eyes. Explore anatomy, medical imaging techniques used to examine the eyes, and pathology. After a brief lesson, attendees will create their own visual representation of the eyes. Open to the public. Recommended for students in 3rd-8th grade. Reservations required; limited to 20. For reservations, call 301-319-3325. All participants will receive a wearable button featuring the Organ of the Month after each program. Attend each program and collect them all!

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Join CAPT. Stanton E. Cope, director of the Armed Forces Pest Management Board, for a brief history of Yellow Fever and its impact on the U.S. and abroad. Learn about the experiments conducted in Cuba by the Walter Reed Commission using human volunteers, including the aftermath of the experiments and the fate of the Commission members and some of its volunteers. Additionally, papers, books and other items, some of which are from the 18th century, will be on display. These items, including a reprint signed and corrected by Major Walter Reed, are from CAPT Cope’s award-winning Yellow Fever collection.

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Calling all sports enthusiasts! Hear from specialists and athletes and learn about key muscle groups to improve your performance while preventing injuries. Watch medical illustrators paint on athletes’ bodies to reveal key muscles and bones structures. Featured will be an anatomical art demonstration that will literally illustrate how a horse and rider’s bodies must work in tandem to achieve maximum performance.

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Join author and historian Guy R. Hasegawa for a talk on the manufacturing of artificial limbs during the Civil War, including how they were provided to amputees during the conflict. Hasegawa will also discuss his new book, “Mending Broken Soldiers: The Union and Confederate Programs to Supply Artificial Limbs.” Books will be available for purchase.

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