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National Hansen's Disease Museum

Carville, LA

The museum occupies part of the former national leprosarium at Carville and interprets Hansen's disease, treatment, stigma and the lives of patients who lived there. It sits within a Louisiana National Guard installation, so visitors must follow current gate and identification procedures.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: hrsa.gov/hansens-disease/museum

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