page_title: National Museum of Health and Medicine
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: National Museum of Health and Medicine / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Army Medical School (US Army) on the National Mall, Washington, DC
context_page_description: The National Museum of Health and Medicine is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, DC. The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum in 1862; it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011. An element of the Defense Health Agency, the NMHM is a member of the National Health Sciences Consortium.
caption: The Army Medical Museum and Library building housed the Army Medical Museum from 1887 to 1947  – and again from 1962 to 1969, when the building was razed.
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