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The David J. Sencer CDC Museum will re-open with new visitation protocols on January 2nd, 2026. All visitors must make advanced reservations. Walk-in visits are no longer permitted.
The following information is required while making reservations:
- Visitors to provide first, middle, and last name
Visitors 18 and over will also need to submit:
- Date of birth
- Citizenship (Select U.S. or non-U.S. citizen)
- Government-issued valid (not expired) REAL ID number or passport number
Bring confirmation email(s) for museum visit.
Watching Hands: Artists Respond to Keeping Well
The result of an innovative partnership between Georgia-Pacific Professional and the David J. Sencer CDC Museum, the 2011-12 exhibition, Watching Hands: Artists Respond to Keeping Well, asks how art can communicate and interpret the practice of one of the most simple and effective disease prevention strategies: handwashing.
Six artists from across the United States responded to this challenge by creating new paintings, drawings, installations, and graphic communications that range from the humorous to the spiritual. The benefits of handwashing are universal, and communicating those benefits in a meaningful way will always be at the top of the public health agenda.
Click here to read the entire essay by Louise E. Shaw, exhibition curator.
John Bankston
Magic Handwashing
Didi Dunphy
Bubbles, Bubbles
Joe Peragine
Easiest, cheapest, needfull’st
Katherine L. Ross
Water Cure
Laura Splan
Surface Tension
James Victore
Washing Hands: The single most important means of preventing the spread of infection.