NMHM Exhibits at the 2010 USA Science and Engineering Festival

Andrea Schierkolk, public programs manager for the National Museum of Health and Medicine, leads a “forensics mystery” activity to showcase military efforts to identify U.S. war dead. The activity was just one of many the Museum offered during the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. October 23 and 24.		Gwen Nelmes, tour program coordinator for the National Museum of Health and Medicine, helps a child perform a bullet extraction on a model of a brain using tools from a replica of a Civil War surgical kit. The activity was just one of many the Museum offered during the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. October 23 and 24.
Myron Bernstein, a volunteer docent at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, shows a group of children plastinated organs during the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. October 23 and 24.		A Walter Reed living-history interpreter highlights Reed’s influences in tropical medicine at the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s booth during the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. October 23 and 24, 2010.
People crowd around the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s booth at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C. October 23 and 24, 2010.