May 2022
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden sculpture workshop. In Muñoz, Pedro Felipe N. de. From Dresden to the world: images of the German Hygiene Museum’s relations with Latin America, 1911-1933. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos [online]. 2022, v. 29, n. 1.
As of the nineteenth century, the number of world fairs and hygiene exhibitions grew significantly. For the purpose of sanitary education and hygiene propaganda, many objects and pictures were displayed in hygiene exhibitions and museums, such as the International Hygiene Exhibition of 1911 and the German Hygiene Museum, both in Dresden.
The article From Dresden to the world, published in the images section of the latest edition of HCS-Manguinhos, analyzes a chapter of the international history of health through images that portray the connections between the German Hygiene Museum and Latin American countries between 1911 and 1933.
Its author, Pedro Felipe N. de Muñoz, Professor of the Department of History at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, brings together pictures taken by private or institutional photographers to register the events (memory). Behind the internationalism and hygiene education displayed in the pictures about the hygiene exhibitions, intense diplomatic negotiations with economic goals and desires for profit took place, as a result of which many objects and collections crossed the Atlantic.
By following the DHMD’s global exchanges, which included relations with Latin American countries, it was possible to analyze the history of museum objects in circulation and to understand museums not only as a storage facility for objects and collections of cultural and patrimonial value, but also as a social and political institution.
Muñoz, Pedro Felipe N. de From Dresden to the world: images of the German Hygiene Museum’s relations with Latin America, 1911-1933. História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos [online]. 2022, v. 29, n. 1
