Las exhibiciones etnológicas y coloniales decimonónicas y la Exposición de Filipinas de 1887

A large number of International, colonial and ethnological exhibitions were held in Europe and America during the second half of the nineteenth century, all of them designed to show visitors the inferior and «wild» nature of the colonized peoples. Partially in accordance with these precedents, the Philippine Exhibition was organized in Madrid in 1887. The author discusses in general terms such age of exhibitions and calls attention to the ideological singularity of the event held in Madrid.