The Hygiene Museum?
There's a tram stop in the altstadt (old city) of Dresden called "Dt. Hygiene-Museum" (located here). I decided to check it out, since I was interested what a Hygiene Museum could possibly have.
It turns out that there's a decent sized permanent exhibit, which concentrates on the workings of the human body. There were two other exhibits.
1. Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race (AN EXHIBITION BY THE UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM)
2. Sleeping & Dreaming: An Exhibition by the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (In Collaboration with Wellcome Collection, London)
The main exhibit was as interactive exhibit that attempted to teach all aspects of the human being. One really cool thing I learned, was there your eye has a blind spot. I found a demonstration of this online, here.
The first special exhibit was about how the German's attempt to purify their gene pool back before WWII. Most of this was based on the theory that if you stop people who have undesired traits (psychosis, mental disabilities, physical disabilities, low mental capacities) to reproduce, you would strengthen the genetic pool of the country. Hitler used this as a basis to justify murder of millions of people.
The second exhibit was about sleep. I was actually a little sleepy by the time I got to this one...
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We have blind spots! Crazy. I went through the linked article and it is amazing how large the blind spot is.
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