VISITORS INFORMATION
Visiting the Exhibits | Visiting the History Office | Current Onsite Exhibits
VISITING THE HISTORY OFFICE AND Exhibits
The Office of History and Exhibits are located on the campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. They are open during normal business hours, Monday - Friday.
The History Office is located on the third floor of Building 45, also known as the Natcher Building, Room 3AN38.
Exhibits are scattered across the NIH campus in the Clinical Center (Building 10), the lobbies of Buildings 45 and 50 and the 3rd Floor hallway of Building 1.
For locations, maps, transportation, and security see: http://www.nih.gov/about/visitor/index.htm
CURRENT ONSITE EXHIBITS
Deciphering the Genetic Code: Marshall Nirenberg
Breaking the Genetic Code has been temporarily dismantled for a construction project in the Clinical Center. It will be redesigned and reinstalled.
The Stadtman Way: A Tale of Two Biochemists at NIH
Building 10, outside of Lipsett Amphitheater
Varian A-60 NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance)
Building 45 lobby
Past in the Present
Building 1, 3rd floor
Dr. Albert Kapikian's Electron Microscope
Building 50 lobby
A CENTRIFUGE IS AN INSTRUMENT THAT SPINS MIXTURES OF MATERIALS AROUND AT HIGH SPEEDS TO SEPARATE HEAVIER FROM LIGHTER MATERIALS. THIS CENTRIFUGE IS IN THE STETTEN MUSEUM COLLECTION AND WAS DONATED BY DUPONT'S BIOTECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS DIVISION ON THE OCCASION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE NIH. ITS PLAQUE READS: “IN HONOR OF MARSHALL W. NIRENBERG FOR HIS PIONEERING EXPERIMENTS WHICH LED TO THE ELUCIDATION OF THE GENETIC CODE.”
