Free lecture "The Rise and Fall of the Army Medical Museum and Library"

Date: November 16, 2005
Time: 6:30 p.m.
"The Rise and Fall of the Army Medical Museum and Library"
Adolph Cluss Exhibition Project
Sumner School, 17th and M Sts., NW; Washington, DC

A presentation at the Charles Sumner School by Michael Rhode, chief archivist, at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, will illuminate the establishment of the Army Medical Museum during the Civil War, its growth in Ford’s Theater and its merger with the Surgeon General’s Library (now the National Library of Medicine), leading to the necessity of a new building.

The building that housed the Army Medical Museum and Library, designed by Adolf Cluss, opened on the Mall in 1887. The Museum and the Library remained in the building until the 1960s when the building was demolished to make way for the Hirshhorn Museum. Rhode will look at the building, the history of its eighty years of existence, its designation as a national historic landmark, and its destruction.

This will be an hour-long illustrated lecture, followed by a tour of the exhibition.  For further information on the Cluss Project: http://www.adolf-cluss.org/

Michael Rhode, Archivist
Otis Historical Archives
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Washington, DC 20306-6000
202-782-2212; FAX 202-782-3573
http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum
http://nmhm.washingtondc.museum/collections/archives/archives.html

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