Lingnerplatz 1
01069 Dresden

After the First International Hygiene Exhibition had taken place in Dresden in 1911, the industrialist Karl August Lingner (1861–1916), the manufacturer of the mouthwash Odol, suggested the foundation of the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum. It was planned by the architect Wilhelm Kreis and completed in 1930 between the Großer Garten park and Dresden‘s Old City. The museum represents the most important record of New Realism architecture.

Its presentations and exhibitions were intended for health-instruction and hygiene-education. Today, the museum shows the permanent exhibition »Mankind – Body – Health« as well as special exhibitions about recent and cultural-historical topics from the sciences of mankind.

Approach

Tram	1, 2, 4, 12 – stop at Hygienemuseum
	10, 13 – stop at Großer Garten