Medical Museion | public outreach

Why control has to die so that information may live

Af Daniel Noesgaard Den 31 May 2011

“Why Proteins Have to Die So That We May Live”. This was the title of the talk given by Nobel Laureate Dr. Aaron Ciechanover at the international symposium entitled Protein Chemistry: Applications to Combat Diseases held at the University of Copenhagen earlier this week. Three days packed with talks from the world’s leading protein [...]

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A manifesto for creating science, technology and medicine exhibitions

Af Thomas Söderqvist Den 16 Feb 2011

Two weeks ago I mentioned that the Museums Journal had published Ken Arnolds and my Dogme 95-style manifesto for creating science, technology and medicine exhibitions, first presented last September at a conference organised by Medical Museion in Copenhagen. We have now received the journal’s permission to publish the full version of the manifesto. Enjoy and/or criticize! Just [...]

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Telling stories about medical instruments

Af Astrid Mo Den 25 Oct 2010

“How do we display artifacts which are neither sexy nor beautiful?” asked Yves Thomas in his presentation at last month’s conference in Copenhagen. His own answer to the question was to bring a human dimension to these objects by adding virtual elements such as interviews with the researchers or video clips of the [...]

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Investigating museum visitors

Af Astrid Mo Den 21 Oct 2010

Another theme at the “Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums”-conference was ‘investigating museum visitors’. Can visitors’ experiences help us make our museums better? Should an exhibition be guided by what the curator is passionate about or by what she thinks the visitor might find interesting? Or should we simply ask [...]

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Curious collections and exhibitions

Af Astrid Mo Den 15 Oct 2010

This session at the conference “Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums” in Copenhagen last month circled around the concept of the Renaissance Wunderkammer, and how we might use techniques of curiosity and wonder to engage people with scientific and historical objects. Joanna Ebenstein —who writes the blog Læs videre →

The molecular in the museum

Af Astrid Mo Den 11 Oct 2010

The implication of the theme — ‘Contemporary medicine and technology as a challenge to museums’ — for this year’s biannual EAMHMS conference in Copenhagen last month is that it is difficult to exhibit the molecular level of the recent medical understanding of the body. How can we display such molecular and other tiny structures? And [...]

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‘An Ageing World’ — a science-design installation about global demography

Af Thomas Söderqvist Den 5 Oct 2010

We’ve just set up the installation ‘An Ageing World’ in the main lobby of the Faculty of Health Sciences here in Copenhagen. The installation has been made to mark the IARU-conference on Ageing, Longevity and Health that takes place 5-7 October, organised by the Center for Healthy Ageing. The simple idea was [...]

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Wellcome visitors to Medical Museion

Af Astrid Mo Den 31 Aug 2010

Medicine and health are too important subjects to be left to scientists only. That is one of the main ideas behind the Wellcome Collection of London. All their exhibitions are medical, but they are never just medical. There is always something more. Like the ’War and Medicine’ exhibition which was accompanied [...]

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A manifesto for creating science, technology and medicine exhibitions

Telling stories about medical instruments

Investigating museum visitors

Curious collections and exhibitions

The molecular in the museum

‘An Ageing World’ — a science-design installation about global demography

Wellcome visitors to Medical Museion

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