Audio Tour Available for Download from NMHM

Planning a visit to the Museum?

Interested in more detail about a particular exhibit or object?

Visitors to the Museum are welcome to take advantage of our free audio tour. Listening wands provide an easy way for museum-goers to engage objects and exhibits in greater detail. (Check out the Tours page to learn more about reserving an audio tour in advance.)

If you are a teacher or tour guide planning a visit to the Museum, or if you are interested in learning more about the exhibits and objects featured on the audio tour, we are now able to offer the individual elements of the audio tour to download at your leisure! There is no need to travel in numerical order. Choose any number and enjoy!

For your reading pleasure, we've compiled a complete script of the audio tour available as a PDF.

Want the entire audio tour on one (very large) MP3 file? Click here. (File size: 48 MB)

Exhibit	Tour Stop	Title of Tour Stop	Duration
Introduction and Brief History of NMHM	1	Introduction	1:30
To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds: Medicine During the Civil War	2	Overview of medical and surgical history of the Civil War	1:29
	3	Sickle’s Leg: The shattered lower leg bones of Major General Daniel E. Sickles	1:00
	4	Chisholm Inhaler Used to Administer Chloroform	0:55
	5	Evacuation and Hospitalization	0:46
	6	Disease and Hygiene	1:43
	7	President Lincoln	1:58
	8	Major General Henry A. Barnum	1:32
	9	Walt Whitman	1:16
Battlefield Surgery 101: From the Civil War to Vietnam	10	Battlefield Surgery, an introduction	1:28
	11	Murals of Surgery on the Battlefield	1:52
	12	Prosthetics	1:15
Evolution of the Microscope	13	Billings Microscope Collection	1:12
	14	Hooke Microscope	0:34
	15	Optics	1:21
	16	Industrial Microscope	0:56
	17	Electron Microscopes	1:26
From a Single Cell	18	Normal Development	1:37
	19	Abnormal Development	0:58
	20	Abnormal Development	1:25
	21	Plastinated torsos	0:35
Medical Diagnostic and Treatment Technology	22	Fluoroscope	2:14
	23	Iron Lung	1:18
Human Body, Human Being	24	Visible Human Project	0:46
	25	Kidneys	1:04
	26	Lungs	1:13
	27	Heart	1:19
	28	Marey Sphygmograph	0:39
	29	Lymphatic System	1:34
	30	Bones	1:31
	31	Skeleton of Peter Cluckey	1:23
	32	Muscles	0:58
	33	Digestive System	1:26
	34	Endocrine System	1:20
	35	Nervous System	1:36
	36	Liver	1:48
	37	Major Walter Reed	1:43