Exhibitions

Project HOPE: Forty Years of American Medicine Abroad

April 17, 1998 – July 8, 1998

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

2nd floor, West Wing, History-in-the-News case

See on Map Floor Plan

This small case features photos and objects that explore the work of the S.S. HOPE, the first peace time hospital ship, run by Health Opportunities for People Everywhere, an American medical philanthropy founded in Washington, DC, in 1958.