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Visit to a medical museum

Final Salute will open another transitional home this November eleventh, Veterans Day. This third Final Salute home is in Alexandria, Virginia.

One of the oldest museums in the United States tells the history of medical technology, including equipment that was used to treat people long ago. The museum also has anatomical collections of bones and preserved human organs. The National Museum of Health and Medicine opened as the Army Medical Museum during the Civil War. Now, it is celebrating its one hundred fiftieth anniversary with a new building for its large collection of rare -- and sometimes frightening -- objects.

The remains of conjoined twins are not what you would find in a traditional museum. However, they can be seen at The National Museum of Health and Medicine near Washington. Its aim is to increase the understanding of medicine -- past, present and future.

Visitors can see surgical equipment and microscopes used to discover new diseases from the eighteen sixties.

Jim Curley is the museum's historical collection specialist. He organizes all the artifacts.

“What I find so significant is, any given thing, they each have a very unique and interesting story and that's one of the great opportunities that I have in my job to be able to explore them."

The Museum is especially popular with school children and health care workers. They get a close look at the human body -- like a leg swollen with elephantiasis, an infectious disease found mostly in warm climates.