What are in the museums collections, what do they contain, and how large are they?
The museum’s collections represent archival materials, anatomical and pathological specimens, medical instruments and artifacts, and microscope slide-based medical research collections. The collections focus particularly on the history and practice of American medicine, military medicine, and current medical research issues. There are five major collections in the museum, formerly known as the Armed Forces Medical Museum and before that known as the Army Medical Museum. The museum estimates that it maintains 24,662,515 objects. For more about this, look at Collections. A. The museum’s Anatomical Collections hold human and veterinary specimens of historical and pathological interest. It has more than 5,000 pathological skeletal specimens and about 8,000 gross pathology fluid-preserved specimens documenting medical cases of disease and injury. Collections within Anatomical Collections includes: • The Civil War Collection – this contains nearly 2,000 skeletal specimens collected from U.S.
