Exhibitions

About Faces: The Postwar Boom in Craniofacial Knowledge

September 18, 1997 – January 18, 1998

National Museum of American History
1300 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, DC

1st Floor, West Wing

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This showcase explores how the application of medical research has changed the perceptions of the face since the 1950s through artificial skin, prosthetic implants, contact lenses, dental braces, cosmetics, and examples of medical imaging.

Computer interactive