National Museum of Health and Medicine

Very beautiful museum . As a future neurosurgeon I found a lot of interesting things that helped me to better understand the human body and its pathologies especially the nervous system.

Fascinating little museum . Not for the squeamish! Free admission and parking . Takes about an hour to see everything

An Osteotome (forerunner to the medical chainsaw), the box has slides of President Grant's cancerous larynx, that is the 12th thoracic and 1st and 2nd lumbar of President Garfield with a bullet wound.

Absolutely one of the best kept secrets in the DC area. You might expect a medical freak show, but this is a well-curated museum . A personal favorite.

Preserved bodies displaying exotic diseases and other conditions do appear in the collections. There’s plenty more to see, like historical artifacts on vaccinations and wartime medicine. Read more

Peek down the halls of medical history with collections and curious medical instruments, see unusual anatomical artifacts , learn about the first microscopes and scientists who made history with them. Read more

Free museum with super cool artifacts of medical history

This is a great little museum with a ton of very fascinating info. Takes an hour or two to see the whole thing.

If you have the opportunity to do a docent tour it is well worth it

Very weird stuff. Bullet fragment and skull bits from Lincoln 's assassination. Lots of Civil War bones and amputation saws, gruesome stuff. Lots of bizarre organs in jars. Not sure why it's a museum a Read more

A neat look into medical history

Great jars of science!

It's gotten alot smaller than its previous location. Still cool though.

Lincoln exhibit .

Science in Jars!