Exhibitions

National Institutes of Health: A Century of Biomedical Research

November 1, 1987 – September 19, 2002

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

1st Floor, West Corridor

See on Map Floor Plan

Commemorate the 100th anniversary of the National Institutes of Health, exploring its transformation from a one-room, hospital-based bacteriological laboratory into the largest medical enterprise in the world. Items on display include a post-Civil War surgical chest, public health service uniforms, and a microscope from the early Hygienic Laboratory.