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Subject: Lecture: The Rise and Fall of the Army Medical Museum and
Library


"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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