Hygiene The story of a museum - Marres

Museum as Practice
Exhibition models
The museum did not only offer mass-produced
educational materials and exhibitions.
It also made representations and replicas of
the museum as a whole. With the help of
travelling pavilions, the museum was able to
diffuse its diverse ideas in the cities that were
destroyed during the war.
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Replica of the Hygiene-Museum in
the form of a pavilion
1949
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Pavilion of the museum at the Bahnhof
Friedrichstraße in Berlin
1950
One pavilion was a replica of the Hygiene-
Museum in simplified form. The wooden
model made its first appearance on the
Spring Fair in Leipzig in 1949, after which it
stood in Berlin behind the Bahnhof Friedrichstraße
from 1950 to 1961, where it was visited
by 951.571 people.
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Construction of the large mobile pavilion
1950
Between 1950 and 1971, over 3 million people
visited this mobile pavilion, which consisted
of six trucks that were connected to
each other with a folding entrance. The covered
pavilion offered approximately 360 m2
of exhibition space.
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The Hygiene-Car of the museum
with destination ‘Health!’
1930
A very special form of the travelling exhibition
was the ‘Hygiene-Wanderauto’, which
the museum deployed since the International
Hygiene-Exhibition of 1930. The bus could
generate its own electricity and had its own
projector. The tent, which was folded on top
of the roof, could be converted into an exhibition
space. This way, the exhibition ‘Protection
of life and health’ of 1933 could be presented
in 54 rural municipalities that had no
railway connection during a so-called ‘tour
along the eastern border’.