Guide to Collections Relating to the History of Artificial Internal Organs

Museums, Archives and Libraries

	DeWitt Stetten, Jr., Museum of Medical Research, National Institutes of Health

	NIH History Office, Building 31, Room 5B38, MSC 2092
	(301) 496-6610
	(301) 402-1434
	wwwwwnlm@nlm.nih.gov/od/museum

	Michele Lyons, Curator
	lyonsm@od.nih.gov

	The collections of the Museum may be examined by special arrangement. Exhibits of the Stetten Museum are displayed in several buildings on the NIH campus, and are generally accessible during business hours, Monday through Friday. There is no charge for admission.

	The Stetten Museum, established in 1987, collects, preserves and interprets biomedical research instruments and technologies related to the National Institutes of Health, and non-scientific objects, which place the National Institutes of Health in historical perspective. Museum exhibits seek to educate the public about the process of biomedical research and about its achievements, generally focusing on the research of NIH investigators as case studies.


Collections
	Museum Objects Collection, 1920 to present day



	Approximately 2,000 objects

	During the years leading up to the NIH centennial commemoration in 1986-1987, Dr. DeWitt Stetten, Jr., NIH Deputy Director for Science, emeritus, proposed establishment of a museum of medical research instruments to preserve the material heritage of biomedical research. In October 1986, the museum--combined with a revived NIH Historical Office--was created, and Dr. Victoria A. Harden was appointed Historian and Curator. In May 1987, the museum was renamed in honor of Dr. Stetten.

	The Stetten Museum collects medical instruments and artifacts related to the NIH intramural programs. The collection includes a Craig counter-current distribution apparatus, an AMINCO-Bowman spectrophotofluorometer, and the magnet assembly from the neuro-PET scanner. Artifacts include such NIH memorabilia as anniversary pins, paintings of distinguished scientists, gifts to the institutes, cornerstones of buildings, and laboratory clothing, such as lab coats and safety equipment.Collection items relating to the history of artificial organs include: Redy Universal Recirculating Dialysate System Latham Blood Processor, Model 10 Haemonetics Blood Processor, Model 30 Collins Respirometer Heart-Lung Machine, late 1950s/ early 1960s Walton-Type Cardiac Strain Gauge Schwartz-Medtronic CSN Transmitter, Model 4041-5A Medtronic CSN Stimulator, Model 4041-6A Spare Parts Kit for Chardack Greatbatch Pacemaker Cutler-Mammer RF-Cardiac Pacemaker (Hang on Neck) Medtronic CNS Receivers, Model 8L028 Medtronic Inc. Chardack Greatbatch Pacemaker Gott-Daggett Butterfly-Leaflet Valve Hufnagel Valve Muller Valve Muller-Littlefield Valve duPlessis-Morrow Teflon Mitral Valve Braunwald-Morrow Mitral Prosthesis Kay-Suzuki Disc Prosthesis Harken Disc Prosthesis-Surgitool Starr-Edwards valves (numerous types) Cross-Jones Mitral Prosthesis Servelle Metal Disc Valves Kay-Shiley Disc Valves Van Der Spuy "Toilet Seat" Valve Wada-Cutter Prosthesis Harkin Disc Mitral Valve Cooley-Bloodwell Mitral Prosthesis Magovern Sutureless Aortic Prosthesis - Surgitool Smeloff-Cutter Prosthesis Harkin Aortic Prosthesis - Surgitool Brauwald-Cutter Aortic and Mitral Valves Hall Kaster (1977) Medtronic Hall (1981) Bjork-Shiley Tilting Disc Prosthesis St. Jude Omniscience Debakey Aortic Prosthesis - Surgitool Reis-Hancock Porcine Xenograft - Aortic Model Reis-Hancock Porcine Xenograft - Mitral Model Carpentier-Edwards Mounted Xenograft, Aortic Model 2611 Carpentier-Edwards Mounted Xenograft, Mitral Model 6611 Ionescu-Shiley Heart Valve Prosthesis Tissue Valves from People's Republic of China Hufnagel Aortic Heart Valve Artificial Heart, Teco Aut. Heart Contract Dis

	Catalogue of the Museum Objects Collection available from curator.

	None

	Photos of objects available.

Last reviewed: 27 August 2008
Last updated: 02 March 2007
First published: 01 March 2002
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