Recreation of the museum of the Institute of Hygiene on the Devichye Pole at the Institute of Public Health of the F.F. Erisman Sechenov University

Abstract

The article presents a historical analysis of the development of the museum at the Institute of Hygiene at the Devichye Pole and its use in the educational process with students. There is shown the leading role of F.F. Erisman in the formation of this museum, opened in 1890 at the Institute of Hygiene of the Imperial Moscow University. Main factors that influenced the expansion of the museum exposition in the pre-war years were established to be the inclusion of the I Moscow Medical Institute in 1935. The Institute of the Organization of Health and Social Hygiene, together with its museum fund, and the completion of construction in 1936 of the superstructure over the building of the Institute of Hygiene, in connection with which the total construction cubic capacity of its four-storey building exceeded 62 000 m3 and provided the necessary premises for all units located in it. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), the building of the Institute of Hygiene was mothballed and subsequently needed for the repairment. The expositions in it after the war were transferred to the medical museums of Moscow. Taking into account the importance of the museum exposition in the educational process with students, in 2020 the museum was recreated at the F.F. Erisman Institute of Public Health of the Sechenov University and continues to be successfully used by preventive departments in the educational process.