Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

IHMT.0000347. Uma aula. Escola de Medicina Tropical.

The Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was founded on April 24, 1902, by law of King Carlos I, as the School of Tropical Medicine, a field of knowledge that until the beginning of the 20th century was taught at the Naval Academy. In 1935, the School of Tropical Medicine was renamed the Institute of Tropical Medicine (IMT). At that time, it was still located in the National Cordoaria. Coinciding with the Sixth International Congresses of Tropical Medicine and Malaria in Lisbon in 1958, the new building was inaugurated in Junqueira, which remains to this day. After 1935, the school had several names until its current name, the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1980, it was integrated into the New University of Lisbon.

IHMT.0000350. A Lesson in Parasitology. Prof. Ayres Kopke. School of Tropical Medicine.

Jaques Barbut. Lisbon, 1799

The Museum dates back to the founding of the School of Tropical Medicine, being referenced in its first regulations of 1902 (Chapters V and XI – http://hdl.handle.net/10362/108434). At the time, its main mission was to support teaching and research through “material collected at the Colonial Hospital and the Hospitals of the Overseas Provinces” (Article 23), rather than simply exhibiting or displaying museum or heritage objects of interest in the health field.

IHMT.0000125. Cassava. C. 1950

IHMT.0000417. Pila╠âo de madeira. Ambrizete. Angola. C. 1950

IHMT.0000133. Aveia. C. 1950

Currently, with 120 years of existence, the IHMT holds a unique medical, scientific, and artistic cultural and museum heritage in the field of tropical medicine and public health and develops an institutional strategy focused on its preservation and dissemination nationally and internationally.

IHMT.0000139. Calabaceira. Guine╠ü. C. 1950

IHMT.0000150. Maboque. Angola. C. 1950

Through its conservation, inventory, curation, research and investigation, digitization, exhibition, dissemination, and training activities, the IHMT Museum aims to contribute to the appreciation of the history and culture of tropical medicine, both Portuguese and international, and to its preservation and dissemination.