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National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring, MD

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National Museum of Health and Medicine

See the bullet that killed Lincoln and centuries of medical specimens at the Army's free museum of medicine just outside Washington.

2500 Linden Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20910 · Silver Spring, MD

About National Museum of Health and Medicine

The Army Surgeon General founded this museum in 1862 as the Army Medical Museum. Its collections hold about 25 million items, including 5,000 skeletal specimens and thousands of preserved organs. The Lincoln case shows the bullet that killed the president, the probe used to find it and fragments of his skull. Entry is free, and the museum sits in Silver Spring, about one mile outside Washington, D.C.

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