CDC - Global Health Odyssey Museum - Changing Exhibitions

Changing Exhibitions Program
The Global Health Odyssey Museum will feature changing exhibits over the coming years to supplement our permanent installations. New changing exhibits are in the works, so please check back with us.


When a fly wipes his feet on your food, he’s spreading disease!
War Department, U.S. Government Printing Office, United States
1944 Photomechanical print 36 x 51 cm.
Artist: Vernon Grant (1902-1990)
Photo: National Library of Medicine

An Iconography of Contagion: An Exhibition of 20th-Century Health Posters
September 28, 2009 - January 29, 2010
From the collection of the National Library of Medicine
Mike Sappol, Curator

This exhibition features more than 20 health posters from the 1920s to the 1990s, from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. It covers infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, gonorrhea, and syphilis.

The posters show the interplay between public understanding of disease and social values. They reflect the fears and concerns of the time, and the state of medical knowledge. And they show how beautiful and entertaining images and designs were used to educate the public on matters of life and death.

This exhibition is sponsored by the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences. Additional support is provided by the Presidents’ Circle Communications Initiative of the National Academies.

Click here to download the exhibition catalogue: http://www.nasonline.org/site/DocServer/IofCBrochure06.pdf?docID=54381




VD: Values, Rights, Public Health
February 15 - May 28, 2010
VD: Values, Rights, Public Health chronicles the social and cultural history of venereal diseases (now known as sexually transmitted diseases) in the United States beginning in the 20th century. Through compelling posters, photographs, documents, and relevant historic objects, this exhibit examines the response of public health agencies, medical researchers, the military, non-profit organizations, and communities to what was once considered one of America’s most urgent challenges—particularly prior to the development and widespread use of antibiotics in the second half of the 20th century.

The exhibit demonstrates how language and graphics used by public health and civic leaders strongly reflect the history of the times and reveals how rhetoric underscores community values. Questions about individual rights, stigma, and sexuality are contrasted with issues of societal values, health, and safety. VD: Values, Rights, Public Health illuminates this perennial struggle.

VD: Values, Rights, Public Health is organized by the Global Health Odyssey Museum with the Division of STD Prevention, National Center for Viral Hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, STD and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.




Disease Detectives
June 14 - September 10, 2010
In this immersive exhibition, museum visitors have the opportunity to role-play various medical professionals and solve up to three infectious disease mysteries. Participants meet interactive patients, analyze lab tests. and learn about the transmission and prevention of infectious diseases. Will they discover why young Adam can't enjoy his birthday cake? Why Yolanda has become deathly ill while visiting her family? Or what is making Marcus so sick that he goes to the emergency room? Visitors can choose to solve the mysteries or interact with the exhibit components randomly, Either way, they will understand what causes infectious diseases, how infectious diseases spread, what the public can do to help stop the spread of infectious diseases, and why there are so many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases.

See the interactive Disease Detectives website at http://www.diseasedetectives.org/about.

Disease Detectives is a traveling exhibition from the Science Museum of Minnesota. The exhibit was made possible by a Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) grant from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).




Our Home - Nuestra Casa
A Touring Project for Tuberculosis Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization

June 14 - September 10, 2010
Our Home - Nuestra Casa is a three-dimensional house that reflects the lives and stories of people affected by tuberculosis (TB), their surroundings, and their messages of reality and hope from the U.S.-Mexico Border and the rest of the country. The exhibit provides museum visitors with an experiential-learning opportunity by inviting them into the 'home' of a person with TB.

Damien Schumann, talented photojournalist and committed social activist, first constructed The TB/HIV Shack to represent a typical South African, low-income dwelling, in order to raise awareness about one of the settings where TB and HIV/AIDS coexist. Project Concern International (PCI) and the US-Mexico Border Health Association (USMBHA), with collaboration from the Mexico National Tuberculosis Program, and financing from USAID-Mexico, took on the commitment to adapt Damien Schumann’s concept to Our Home - Nuestra Casa and make this project a reality. The purpose of this mobile exhibit is to fulfill the social commitment to recognize and put in perspective the TB problem, to increase political will to improve prevention and control of the disease, and to reduce the stigma and discrimination experienced by persons affected by TB.

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