International Cooperation of the Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine
International Cooperation of the Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine

Summary/Abstract: From the very beginning, the Pauls Stradiņš Museum of the History of Medicine in Riga (museum), has been open to international contacts. In the past, partnerships with other Soviet republics were not seen as international cooperation. On the other hand, partnerships with institutions in the countries of the so-called Socialist partnership (East Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc.) were seen as international cooperation. Contacts with Western countries in the area of the history of medicine were the exclusive provenance of Moscow, and such efforts were not supported at the level of Soviet republics, apart from episodic visits by scholars and museum specialists from Socialist countries, visits to congresses as part of Soviet delegations.

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