U.S. National Institutes of Health
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The Office of NIH History and its Stetten Museum is a component of the Office of Intramural Research, Office of the Director at the National Institutes of Health. The NIH is one of the Public Health Service agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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[edit] Address and Contact Info
Address: Office of NIH History and DeWitt Stetten Jr. Museum of Medical Research, 45 Center Drive, William H. Natcher Building (Bldg. 45), Bethesda, MD 20892-6330.
Phone: (301) 496-6610
Fax: (301) 402-1434
E-mail: history@nih.gov
Web page: http://history.nih.gov/
Online Finding Aid:
Contacts: Robert L. Martensen, M.D., Ph.D. (director); Barbara Harkins (archivist); Michele Lyons (museum curator).
[edit] Hours and usage restrictions
Monday - Friday (excluding holidays) 8:30-5:00 p.m. Please call for appointment.
[edit] Collection Summary
The Office of NIH History maintains a reference collection of books, documents, articles, in-house publications, slides, photographs, and ephemera relating to the history of the National Institutes of Health. Primary reference collections are maintained by the National Library of Medicine on the NIH campus and by the National Archives and Records Administration. The Office of NIH History provides liaison to scholars, assisting them in identifying the repositories most likely to house records important to their research.
The Stetten Museum houses a collection of more than 2,500 biomedical research instruments. A resource for scholars interested in biomedical research technology, the collection is accessible for research by appointment.
Collections are searchable online at http://history.nih.gov, “Search Collections.”
[edit] Usage Discussion
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