"Guests view a portion of the Smithsonian polio exhibition at Warm Springs."
The history of polio from ancient times to the present is the subject of an extensive exhibition now open at Roosevelt Institute in Warm Springs, Georgia. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History created the exhibition to mark the 50th anniversary of the Salk polio vaccine.
Roosevelt Institute, a comprehensive medical and vocational rehabilitation center founded by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1927, wanted to bring the exhibition to Warm Springs because of its historic connection to the disease. More than 15,000 people from around the world received polio rehabilitation treatment at Warm Springs from the late 1920s to the mid 1960s.
The exhibition is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday thru Saturday. For more information, please contact tour coordinator Linda Creekbaum at 706-655-5010.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/pressrelease.cfm?key=29&newskey=584
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