The German Hygiene Museum or Deutsches Hygiene-Museum is located in Dresden. Founded in 1912 by Karl August Lingner, a businessman and manufacturer of hygiene products, it was built as a permanent public venue for healthcare education following the first International Hygiene Exhibition in 1911.

Possibly the biggest attraction of the museum's permanent collection is a transparent model of the human body titled "Gläserner Mensch" or "Transparent Man". Also in its permanent exhibition is "Human Adventure" which explores the human race, the body and health in its cultural and social contexts together with a children's museum of the senses.

During WWII, the museum came under the influence of the Nazis, who used it to produce propaganda materials extolling their racial ideology and promoting eugenics. The museum was severely damaged during the bombing of Dresden in 1945.

In 1988 the museum, working in co-operation with East German gay and lesbian activists, commissioned DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft) film studios to make the documentary film Die andere Liebe - The Other Love, being the first East German film that dealt with the subject of homosexuality.

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