Editing Human zoo (section)

=== Spain ===
[[File:Vista_de_la_seccion_8;_Bellas_Artes._Exposición_de_Filipinas.jpg|alt=|thumb|[[Philippines Exposition (1887)|Exposición General de las Filipinas]] in [[Madrid]] (1887).]]
Between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, several exhibitions of non-Western people were held in Spain, following those held in other areas like the United Kingdom.<ref name="vanguardia">{{cite web|access-date=2023-10-06|date=2015-05-03|language=es|title=Macabro testimonio en fotos de los "zoos humanos" de Madrid llega a Paraguay|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20150503/54430373371/macabro-testimonio-en-fotos-de-los-zoos-humanos-de-madrid-llega-a-paraguay.html|website=La Vanguardia}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> The first of them was held in 1887 by the [[Ministry of Overseas (Spain)|Ministry of Overseas]], which exhibited a group of between forty and fifty [[Filipino people]] (then a Spanish territory) together with local products and plants in the [[Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid|Retiro Park in Madrid]].<ref name="vanguardia"/> For this exhibition, the [[Palacio de Cristal del Retiro]] was built, as well as its pond, which sought to recreate the "natural habitat" of the exposed people.<ref name="vanguardia"/><ref name="publico">{{cite web|access-date=2023-10-06|archive-date=11 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011134117/https://blogs.publico.es/strambotic/2018/09/zoologicos-humanos/|date=2018-09-25|language=es|title=El parque del Retiro de Madrid acogió un zoológico humano en 1887|url=https://blogs.publico.es/strambotic/2018/09/zoologicos-humanos/|website=Público}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> At least four people died during the exhibition.<ref name="publico" /> In the following years, private companies organized similar exhibitions in [[Barcelona]] and [[Madrid]], including of people who were not from Spanish territories, like the [[Asante people|Ashanti]] or the [[Inuit]]. Until 1918, exhibitions of African people were held in the [[Ronda de la Universitat, Barcelona|Ronda de la Universitat]] in Barcelona, which were later taken to other European countries.<ref name="vanguardia" /> There are also records of another exhibition in the [[Ibero-American Exposition of 1929|Ibero-American Exposition of Seville]] in 1929 and an additional one of [[Fang people]] from [[Equatorial Guinea]] in [[Valencia]] in 1942.<ref name="elpais">{{cite news|access-date=2023-10-06|last=Bono|date=2020-02-19|first=Ferran|issn=1134-6582|language=es|periodical=El País|title=Cuando España se sumó a la moda de exhibir africanos en 'zoos humanos'|url=https://elpais.com/cultura/2020/02/19/actualidad/1582122137_332623.html}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> Until 1997 the "[[Negro of Banyoles]]", an embalmed African man, was exhibited in the [[Darder Museum]] in [[Girona]].<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2023-10-06|date=2019-03-01|language=es|title=El Negro de Banyoles fue enterrado en un país equivocado|url=https://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20190302/46768019743/africa-negro-disecado-taxidermia-banyoles-racismo.html|website=La Vanguardia}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>