CDC's art museum

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CDC's art museum

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been curating a museum in its halls since 2002.

Louise Shaw (top left), curator of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention museum, gives a group a tour through an exhibit of 20th century health posters. The museum receives 50,000 visitors a year.

Curator Louise E. Shaw has a particular appreciation for the graphic arts that accompanied public health campaigns. For 15 years, she was the executive director of the Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, which included the Nexus Press, where she learned a great deal about the two-color process.

Group tours the smoking exhibit in the museum's permanent collection.

"An Iconography of Contagion," a collection of 20th century health posters, is among the museum's permanent exhibits. The museum holds other artifacts. Some are modest, such as a jar of volcanic ash from Mount St. Helens. Some are gargantuan, including an iron lung used by its Louisiana owner for 47 years and a transmission electron miscroscope, used by the CDC for research into AIDS.

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Louise Shaw (top left), curator of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention museum, gives a group a tour through an exhibit of 20th century health posters. The museum receives 50,000 visitors a year.

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