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The German Hygiene Museum ((ドイツ語:Deutsches Hygiene-Museum)) is a medical museum in Dresden, Germany. It conceives itself today as a "forum for science, culture and society".〔(A forum for science, culture and society ) 〕 It is a popular venue for events and exhibitions, and is among the most visited museums in Dresden, with around 280,000 visitors per year.〔(Lernort Museum – Wie wollen wir leben? Ethische Debatten im Museum ) 〕 ==History== The museum was founded in 1912 by Karl August Lingner, a Dresden businessman and manufacturer of hygiene products, as a permanent "public venue for healthcare education", following the first International Hygiene Exhibition in 1911.〔(Hygiene Ausstellungen ) Lingner-Archiv. 〕〔(Kulturberichte 1/01: Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum ) Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institute e.V. 〕 The second International Hygiene Exhibition was held in 1930/31, in a building erected west of the Großer Garten park according to plans designed by Wilhelm Kreis, which became the museum's permanent home. One of the biggest attractions was, and remains, a transparent model of a human being, the ''Gläserner Mensch'' or ''Transparent Man'', of which many copies have subsequently been made for other museums.〔〔(Deutsches Hygienemuseum Dresden fertig saniert ) City of Dresden. 12 November 2010. 〕 During the Third Reich the museum came under the influence of the Nazis, who used it to produce material propagandising their racial ideology and promoting eugenics. Various Nazi government offices relocated to the museum between 1933 and 1941,〔(Bilder vom Menschen – Geschichte und Gegenwart: Die Dauerausstellung des Deutschen Hygiene-Museums in Dresden ) Susanne König. In ''Studies in Contemporary History'', 4 (2007). 〕 and the German Labour Front's ''Reichsberufswettkampf'' (National Vocational Competition) was held there in 1944. Large parts of the building and collection were destroyed by the bombing of Dresden in 1945.〔〔 In the GDR-era the museum resumed its role as a communicator of public health information. Following reunification the museum was reconceived and modernised, starting in 1991. In 2001 it was included in the German government's Blue Book, a list of around 20 so-called "Cultural Lighthouses" – cultural institutions of national importance in the former East Germany – in an association called the KNK. Between 2001 and 2005 the museum was renovated and partly rebuilt under the architect Peter Kulka.〔〔〔(Deutsches Hygiene Museum: Monumentale Mischung aus Neoklassik und triumphierender Moderne ) Das Neue Dresden. 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「German Hygiene Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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