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The Second International Hygiene Exhibition 1930

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Fassade 1930 - Foto: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Fassade 1930 - Foto: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum
The museum building designed by Wilhelm Kreis (1873 - 1955) served as the venue for the Second International Hygiene Exhibition in 1930, and is still in current use by the museum today. "The Transparent Man" ranked as the greatest attraction in the 1930 exhibition, in which the image of the human in the modern age was expressed in a glorifying combination of science, transparency and rationality. Since then, "The Transparent Man" has become the central figure of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum and still represents one of its most prominent exhibits.

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After 1933 ...

After 1933, the general educational capacity of the museum and its highly developed modern mediation methods were put into the service of the Nazi race ideology. In the final days of the Second World War, large sections of the museum building and valuable collection holdings were destroyed. During the GDR years, the museum took on a similar role to the Federal Republic's "National Centre for Health Education" through its "Institute of Health Education". After 1991, the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum received a completely new design as a "Museum of the Human Being" which picks up the threads of its innovative approach in the founder years with the assistance of modern methods.

 

Source: Deutsches Hygiene-Museum