Museum for Social Hygiene (Nuremberg)

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Museum of Social Hygiene
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place Nuremberg coordinates: 49 ° 27 ′ 12.3 ″  N , 11 ° 4 ′ 37 ″  EWorld icon
Art
Exhibitions, lectures, films
opening February 20, 1930

The Museum for Social Hygiene was a Nuremberg museum of the city health department.

history

prehistory

On July 1, 1920, the newly established municipal health department , which was supposed to take over the tasks in the sanitary and social hygienic area , which had previously been distributed to many offices , began its work. In the post-war period of World War I , it was largely concerned with combating epidemics and parasites or caring for malnourished children. After normalization of living conditions, the focus was working in the field of official and school health services and the fight against skin and venereal diseases . As in other major German cities, for example Dresden , Frankfurt am Main , Cologne or Stuttgart , the decision was made to set up a hygiene museum with social reformist intentions.

opening

The Museum of Social Hygiene was opened on February 20, 1930 on the main market and was under the direction of the municipal health department. A permanent exhibition dealt with the field of urban hygiene using pictures and models and with the subject of human beings using teaching preparations . The subject areas were deepened in special exhibitions. The museum also had a modern lecture room with a film projector and an epidiascope .

Propaganda exhibitions

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, the museum was used for propaganda purposes, for example in 1936 with the exhibition Heredity - Race - People . The building was completely destroyed in the air raids on Nuremberg .

post war period

After the end of the Second World War , efforts were made to rebuild the museum, but this failed due to a lack of space and, for the time being, more urgent tasks.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Hygiene Museum on Stadtlexikon Nürnberg (online); accessed on November 23, 2018
  2. ↑ Health Department on Stadtlexikon Nürnberg (online); accessed on November 23, 2018
  3. ^ Hygienic education in the public health service on books.google.at, accessed on November 23, 2018