NMHM at Take Your Child to Work Day
July 20, 2011

Andi Sacks, a volunteer docent at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, shows off the Museum’s collection of plastinated human organs to a group of children attending Take Your Child to Work Day 2011 at Fort Detrick.		Elizabeth Lockett, collections manager for the Human Developmental Anatomy Center at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, paints bones on a participant’s hand to illustrate how the hand functions and moves. The activity took place at the Museum’s booth during Take Your Child to Work Day 2011 at Fort Detrick.
Alan Hawk, the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s historical collections manager, uses a skull replica to explain the effects of traumatic brain injury. The Museum was one of several organizations to participate in Take Your Child to Work Day at Fort Detrick on July 20, 2011.		A group of children examine a pelvic bone replica during the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s forensics workshop at Fort Detrick’s Take Your Child to Work Day event on July 20, 2011.
A crowd gathers in front of the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s booth at Fort Detrick’s Take Your Child to Work Day event on July 20, 2011.		Archie Fobbs, collections manager for the Neuroanatomical Collections at the National Museum of Health and Medicine, leads a young participant through a brain activity featuring a "fear box" at Fort Detrick’s Take Your Child to Work Day 2011 event. The purpose of the activity was to teach attendees about the brain’s sensory functions and the importance of overcoming fears.