The National Museum of Civil War Medicine is a U.S. historic education institution located in Frederick, Maryland.

The museum, which was originally proposed by Dr. Gordon E. Damman, a private collector of Civil War-era medical artifacts, was incorporated in 1990 and first opened to the public in 1996.

[1] The museum moved into its current location – a three-story 19th century brick building that was home to a furniture maker/undertaker operation during the Civil War – in October 2000.

[3] In 2006, the museum published its first book with the release of Robert G. Slawson’s Prologue to Change: African Americans in Medicine in the Civil War Era.

[7] In 2014, the museum opened the Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office[8] at 347 Seventh Street, NW in Washington, D.C.[9]