The White House Visitors Center and it is an amazing tool to understand the white house. Both from an architectural standpoint because you very rarely if ever can understand the whole totality of what the white house s you can see the main part of the house but also, too, its wings as well. You can do a 360 degree walk around the white house and see the construction of it and see really one of the most important historic objects in our nation, the white house, and understand its story much more, plus with the advent of technology we have touch screens where you can actually go inside the rooms and see them, see the objects in them, and then also explore them lieu the various centuries that the white house has been here. Im here today in the White House Visitors Center. Were going to take a look at some objects that have been lent from the Permanent Collection of the white house for exhibition here as part of the new and vastly improved White House Visitors Center that opened last fall.
Joe warrens jaw and teeth in the years before warren was killed. So a unique feature for our visitors who come to the museum here in Silver Spring is a chan to see through the Looking Glass as it is into a working museum laboratory. This special lab was equipped to help us prepare and manage the wide range of artifacts in the museums care. What you see on the counter there now is a set of human remains, anatomical specimens, bones, that are laid out on the counter there and museum staff person doing some lab work in preparation of dealing with some objects in conservation, but we could use this lab to manage paper materials, other types of tissue or to prepare objects for longterm storage or for exhibit or display. So our last stop on our visit to the medical museum is here in front of one of the museums storage rooms where we manage our growing 25 million object collection. You can see just a few of the paintings in the museums holdings here in the row behind me and the large painting
Storage rooms where we manage our growing 25 million object collection. You can see just a few of the paintings in the museums holdings here in the row behind me and the large painting there features our the museums founder Surgeon General William Hammond who founded the museum in 1862. One thing that i personally find important about working here at this museum is the stories that we tell are the stories of americas soldiers, sailers, air men and marine and marines. Its important to share the sacrifices that they made for doctors and researchers and innovators to be able to help convey their stories and glad to be able to share that with visitors who come to see us every day here at the museum. This was the second of two programs from our visit to the National Museum of health and medicine, the first focused on the museums civil war collection. You can watch all of our american artifacts programs in their entirety by visiting cspan. Oval history. On sunday, october 25th American Histo
In this case were looking at a couple of objects that relate to the president s use of the house as his office. This is a side chair, called the gothic style, was made in 1845 probably. It was purchased in 1845 anyhow. It wasnt especially made for the white house, it was a style of chair that was made by many cabinetmakers and could be purchased on the general market. What made these interesting was that there were 24 of these black walnut side chairs that were purchased by the white house for use around the president s office table, the cabinet table, on the second floor of the house. There was no west wing until 1902. The president occupied the rooms on the second floor, both for his family and for his offices. So this chair would have seen was purchased under president james k. Polk so it would have been occupied by members of his cabinet during the next can american war and all the activities that went on then. It would have been used throughout the 1850s, was still in use in the 1
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