Centers for Disease Control Museum on Atlas Obscura podcast

Visit a museum inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, which documents how public health officials have slowed the spread of disease through history.

Dec 2 2021

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7bGNhYFdLrb0miAOrF7U4H?si=YEsU_0-sTeyzch1JQQrg8w

FDA History Office Recruiting Museum Specialist

The US Food and Drug Administration's History Office is currently recruiting a Museum Specialist at the GS-09 level:  https://www.usajobs.gov/Search/Results?k=museum%20specialist&p=1  The position is located at the FDA headquarters in Silver Spring, MD.  The announcement is only open this week, from 11/8-11/15. 

Civil War medical photos show up in the oddest places

520 Weeks – Moritat on "All-Star Western:" "Oh, You Can Draw Hats!"

By Brian Salvatore | October 4th, 2021
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/520-weeks-moritat/

Moritat:You know, the droop in the eye? I had reference for him too, and after that, it was easy. I've mostly used a lot of the old Mathew Brady Civil War photographs to kind of get that rugged kind of look, you know, color kind of slightly frayed gun belts.

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Medicinsk Museion reopens this week

THE MUSEUM OPENS AGAIN On Saturday 24 April, we will finally open the doors to our good and curious guests. Our staff is well on its way to sprucing up, putting up signs and getting ready for a safe and secure reopening. Remember bandages and Coronapas. Admission tickets must continue to be purchased in advance, and we will open ticket sales on Wednesday 21 April. Buy admission tickets here. // The museum re-opens April 24. Admission tickets must be purchased in advance. Please remember a face mask and your Corona passport.

What to do with the Morton Crania Collection?

What Should Museums Do With the Bones of the Enslaved?

As one museum has pledged to return skulls held in an infamous collection, others, including the Smithsonian, are reckoning with their own holdings of African-American remains.

By Jennifer Schuessler

April 20, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/arts/design/museums-bones-smithsonian.html

Morton Crania Collection to be partly repatriated

Penn Museum apologizes for its 'unethical' collection of human skulls and says it will repatriate remains of Black Philadelphians and others

• Stephan Salisbury The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)
• Apr 12, 2021

https://www.heraldmailmedia.com/news/nation/penn-museum-apologizes-for-its-unethical-collection-of-human-skulls-and-says-it-will-repatriate/article_703c3728-5ca5-584f-a9fe-4af584df215f.html

Army medical history exhibit opens at Frontier Army Museum

Museum exhibit spotlights military medical milestones

Source:  ftleavenworthlamp.com

Author:  Katie Peterson

https://www.ftleavenworthlamp.com/community/2021/04/15/museum-exhibit-spotlights-military-medical-milestones/

To view the exhibit online with FAM OnCell, visit https://frontierarmymuseum.oncell.com/en/site-list-80713.html.