Summer at Medical Museion
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The Danish summer can be unpredictable, but you can count on us in rain or shine. Throughout the summer holidays, we’ll be ready to welcome you with our cosy courtyard café, daily introductions, and activities for children.
Read on below to discover what you can experience at the museum.
Weekdays 10 am–5 pm | Weekends 11 am–5 pm
Cosy Courtyard Café
Take a break in our courtyard café and enjoy a freshly brewed coffee, cake, a sandwich, a glass of wine, or an ice cream. Not many people know that the museum’s courtyard hides a peaceful green oasis in the heart of the city. Once the private garden of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr, it is now open to everyone during the museum’s opening hours. You’ll find the entrance through the gate at Bredgade 62. No museum ticket is required to visit the café.
Ongoing – Ask at the Ticket Desk
The Dental Collection
Throughout the day, we offer access to the Dental Collection, a small time capsule tucked away in the attic of Medical Museion. Dental chairs, old foot-powered drills, and dentures are just some of the more than 5,000 objects that tell the story of the history of dentistry. Ask about the Dental Collection at the ticket desk. Admission is free once you have paid the museum entrance fee.
Daily – See Times on Our Website
Free Introductions
Join one of our daily introductions in the historic Auditorium, dating from 1787, and learn more about the building’s history and the museum’s exhibitions. Included with museum admission.
Daily During Museum Opening Hours
Explore the Museum
For our youngest visitors, there is a treasure hunt through the exhibitions. Complete the hunt and earn a prize that is sure to make your eyes widen in surprise. Materials are available at the ticket desk. Included with museum admission.
Ongoing – Ask at the Ticket Desk
Get Up Close to History
Discover the museum’s unique historical collection as our museum host shows you how to handle selected objects from the past. You’ll have the opportunity to hold an object in your hands and examine it up close. The activity takes place throughout the day in the Auditorium, with times arranged according to visitor interest and curiosity. Please ask at the ticket desk for details. Included with museum admission.
Daily During Museum Opening Hours
Exhibitions
We have several fascinating exhibitions open throughout the summer. Explore The Body Collected, featuring the museum’s historical collections relating to the human body, from the late eighteenth century to the present day. From foetuses and skeletons to cells and DNA, the exhibition traces changing ways of understanding the human body. In Mind the Gut, the relationship between the brain and the gut is put under the microscope, showing how doctors, researchers, patients, and artists have sought to understand and treat this complex connection over time. Liquid Bodies explores how stem cells and stem cell medicine may shape our lives, both today and in the future. And one day, COVID-19 will be history too. Corona will also be history one day examines major epidemics throughout history and how societies have responded to them.
