The Toxic Museum

PART I Social and political currents from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century; 1. The nation-state of Prussia, colonialism, and the age of industrialization; 2. The First World War and the hygiene movement; 3. The development of storage and plant protection; PART II Conservation of cultural property from organic materials for the prevention and control of harmful insects in museum collections; 4. Definition of pesticides; 5. Control of wood-destroying insects, textile pests, and harmful insects on natural history objects; 6. Protective and human toxic effect of historical pesticides and their suitability test; 7. Typological recording of pesticides PART III Collecting and preserving cultural assets in Berlin and beyond from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century; 8. Spatial conditions and personnel requirements for the preservation of collections at the K¶nigliches Museum f¼r V¶lkerkunde in Berlin from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century; 9. Explorers, collectors, and adventurers at the K¶nigliches Museum f¼r V¶lkerkunde in Berlin from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century; 10. Active ingredients and agents for the protection of persons and goods on expeditions; 11. Developments and experiments on pest control at the K¶nigliches/Staatliches Museum f¼r V¶lkerkunde in Berlin; 12. Knowledge transfer and product application from industry, commerce, and trade at the K¶nigliches/Staatliches Museum f¼r V¶lkerkunde in Berlin; 13. Orders and consequences for the use of pesticides at the K¶nigliches/Staatliches Museum f¼r V¶lkerkunde in Berlin from the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century; 14. Knowledge transfer, exchange, and dissemination of knowledge at the national and international level; 15 Implementation of pest control measures in national and international context during the period under investigation