This room recounts the history of anthropology and its drifts in former times, via a display of phrenological skulls (indicating the different “areas” of human intelligence…), the instruments used in the past by anthropologists to categorise humanity by races, and a set of period “racial” masks. A large final projection explains why today this kind of approach is no longer accepted (nor indeed acceptable), given that in the human species, races simply do not exist.
