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The museum was founded in 1930 by Dr Warner M. Karshner and his wife in honor of their son, Paul Hibbert Karshner, who died of polio. Paul was only 17 years of age, just beginning his senior year at Puyallup High School. [2] It initially consisted of Karshner's private collection of 10,000 items including Native American artifacts.
The museum has its origins in the natural history collection created in 1841 by the curate P. Ax. Hultman in 1841 in Nya skolan, a private school established by Hultman. In 1851 the collection was taken over by the newly established Skånskt naturhistoriskt museum. In 1890, Malmö City Council decided to take over ownership of the museum and in ...
Sediul Muzeului de Științele Naturii (Mureș County Museum, Natural History Department), Târgu Mureș; Székely National Museum (Székely Nemzeti Múzeum), Sfântu Gheorghe; Szekler Museum of Ciuc (Csíky Székely Múzeum), Miercurea-Ciuc; Vrancea Museum, Natural Sciences Department, Focșani
The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. [1] The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) in 1862; [2] it became the NMHM in 1989 and relocated to its present site at the Army's Forest Glen Annex in 2011. [3]
This list of museums in New Hampshire is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
A medical museum is an institution that stores and exhibits objects of historical, scientific, artistic, or cultural interest that have a link to medicine or health. Displays often include models, instruments, books and manuscripts, as well as medical images and the technologies used to capture them (such as X-ray machines ). [ 1 ]
Malm was generally self-taught without an academic degree. In the years 1838–1839, he was student and assistant of Sven Nilsson (1787–1883), professor of Natural History at Lund University . He worked from 1840 as an assistant of Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801–1875) at the Swedish Museum of Natural History , zoological department in Stockholm.
Malmö (/ ˈ m æ l m ə / ⓘ; [4] Swedish: Malmö [ˈmâlːmøː] ⓘ; Danish: Malmø [ˈmælmˌøˀ]) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Skåne (Scania). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal population of 357,377 in 2022. [5]