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Salk Hall

Pittsburgh, US

Salk Hall

Now the home of the schools of pharmacy and dental medicine, this Art Deco building on the upper campus was home to Jonas Salk's lab which produced the world's first polio vaccine, considered to be one of the most significant accomplishments in medical history. The building contains two small museum

s, the '''Dental Museum''', on the first floor of Salk Hall's reception area, as well as the '''Pharmacy Museum''', located on the fourth floor. Tours can be arranged (Pharmacy Museum: +1 412 647-8494, 8AM-6PM; [http://www.dental.pitt.edu/sdm/story4.php Dental Museum] {{dead link|April 2016}} +1 412 383-7544).

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