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An examination of the two major museum exhibits in German physical anthropology in the early twentieth century reveals that the tone and goals of the discipline changed significantly from the pre- to post-World War I period. The Munich anthropological exhibit of 1912 remained cautious and anti-hierarchical in its presentation of race, while the Hamburg Rassenkunde exhibit of 1928 sought to educate the public in a eugenic and physiognomic "racial vision." The change was caused by methodological crises within the discipline and the desire to make the science of anthropology more relevant to national goals during and after World War I. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]