National Museum of Health and Medicine

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National Museum of Health
and Medicine
(founded as the Army Medical Museum)

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

The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.^[1] The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) in 1862;^[2] it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011.^[3] An element of the Defense Health Agency^[4] (DHA), the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium.^[5]