Type History museum Phone +1 301-695-1864 | Website Official Website Established 1990 | |
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Location 48 East Patrick Street
Frederick, Maryland Address 48 E Patrick St, Frederick, MD 21705, USA Hours Closed now Tuesday10AM–5PMWednesday10AM–5PMThursday10AM–5PMFriday10AM–5PMSaturday(Maryland Day)10AM–5PMHours might differSunday11AM–5PMMonday10AM–5PMSuggest an edit Similar Mount Olivet Cemetery, Clara Barton Missing S, Roads and Rails Museum, Weinberg Center, Scheifferstadt Profiles | ||
Visit to the national museum of civil war medicine
The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is a U.S. historic education institution located in Frederick, Maryland. Its focus involves the medical, surgical and nursing practices during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
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National museum of civil war medicine frederick md
History
The museum, which was originally proposed by Dr. Gordon E. Damman, a private collector of Civil War-era medical artifacts, was incorporated in 1990 and first opened to the public in 1996.The museum moved into its current location – a three-story 19th century brick building that was home to a furniture maker/undertaker operation during the Civil War – in October 2000.
Focus
The 7,000-square-foot (650 m2) museum consists of five immersion exhibits that recreate aspects of Civil War medical issues: life in an army camp, evacuation of the wounded from the battlefront, a field dressing station, a field hospital and a military hospital ward. The exhibits incorporate surviving tools and equipment from the war, including the only known surviving Civil War surgeon’s tent, surgical kits, and items pertaining to veterinary medicine.
In 2006, the museum, in cooperation with the U.S. National Park Service, began operating the Pry House Field Hospital Museum at the Antietam National Battlefield. The same year, the museum made its first foray into book publishing with the release of Robert G. Slawson’s Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era.
The museum has organized annual national conferences on Civil War-era medicine for more than twenty years.
In 2014, the museum opened the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office at 347 Seventh Street, NW in Washington, D.C.