A Repository for Bottled Monsters

An unofficial blog about the National Museum of Health and Medicine (nee the Army Medical Museum) in Silver Spring, MD. Visit for news about the museum, new projects, musing on the history of medicine and neat pictures.

A Repository for Bottled Monsters

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Medicinsk Museion reopens this week

What to do with the Morton Crania Collection?

Morton Crania Collection to be partly repatriated

Army medical history exhibit opens at Frontier Army Museum

Dr Mary Walker comic book released

Responding to the Washington Post's mistaken criticism of Hammond

Red Cross photo collection at Library of Congress

Melvin Shaffer interviewed on his WWII Army Medical Museum experience by local paper

Tuberculosis in the African-American community photos at Library of Congress

From Anderson’s Holler – A World War II medical photographer’s story- available now

1st piece on COVID-19 by Navy's medical historian online

Digitization proposed for former Armed Forces Institute of Pathology collection

RIP Ron Wallace, a mainstay of the Borden Institute

Dr Joy, military medical historian, died in 2019

Measles genotyped from Berlin medical museum specimen

NMHM and research on Einstein's brain

NMHM digitizing bones

NMHM 'vampire' skeleton featured in Washington Post

AFIP and NMHM mentioned in memo as having aliens from Roswell

Indiana Medical History Museum profiled