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Baltimore to host NIH patient education exhibits
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The National Eye Institute will present two educational exhibits in the Baltimore area to provide adults and children with details on how vision works and how to treat vision problems, according to a press release.
One 2,000-sq-ft exhibit, Vision, has traveled to 32 cities in the country since 1993. It will be on display at the Maryland Science Center at the Inner Harbor from September 13 to January 1, 2006, when it will be retired from its 12-year road trip.
An interactive exhibit, the Eye Site, describing the causes and treatment of low vision, opens at the Enoch Pratt Library's Central Branch on Cathedral Street, where it will run until October 6 before moving on. This exhibit has traveled to 81 malls in 33 states since 2001.
"As someone who has experienced vision problems, including cataracts, this exhibition has a real personal meaning for me,” said Van Reiner, president of the Maryland Science Center. “Beyond that, however, it is going to give tens of thousands of Marylanders a deeper understanding of the miracle of the human eye."
Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland School of Medicine are heading the host committee for these exhibits.