MAMA MAMASEN

Visiting Lotte residential care home is always an experience. The first thing you notice upon entering is there are no signs warning you of something or pictograms and ideograms giving instructions. The next thing you notice is the lack of plastic. No carers in wipe down aprons, no wipe clean table clothes, plastic beakers or […]

Du sidder i biografens mørke. Duften af popkorn og tilbageholdte åndedræt. En dyb stemme: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkZ6To5G3Os

Astrid Møller-Olsen, der er webmedarbejder her på museet, har netop sat stedets øvrige medarbejdere på en sjov og udfordrende opgave, der går ud på, at vi alle skal finde vores yndlingsgenstand herinde på museet. Det er faktisk lidt svært at udvælge én ting, da man, som forholdsvis ny medarbejder, hele tiden får øjnene op for nye […]

At the conference in September, Ken Arnold and Thomas Söderqvist presented 15 dogmas for museum practice. Inspired by the Danish film directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme95, Ken and Thomas’  list included points like “Leave out as much as possible”, “Never show ready-made science”, “Avoid artificial lighting”, “Use no replicas or reproductions, just […]

This session at the conference in September circled around the role of art in the museum, and how museums and artists can and should work together. The first speaker, Karen Ingham, emphasized that the concept of art in museums essentially refers to interdisciplinary happenings and should always be a product of dialogue. She talked about […]

Jeg begyndte at læse medicin i 1962. Så vidt jeg husker havde man kemi og anatomi det første år, og fra det andet år også fysiologi og biokemi. Den danske lærebog i biokemi var F. Schønheyders i 2. udgave fra 1953. Den var jo nok forældet på det tidspunkt og var i sin udformning ikke […]

Rollator drawings, 30th September – 4th October 2010: Continuing my appreciation of the aesthetics of seemingly ugly and mundane artefacts we associate with ageing, I investigated a second rollator. This was a contemporary model. It had a clear plastic tray, a wire shopping basket and four wheels rather than three for extra stability. It was […]

Rollator drawings  27th–28th, 28th–29th September 2010: When I began drawing the rollator I asked myself why I was drawing something that was so boring, so ugly with no interesting features. I was reminded of the talk Nurin Veis, Deputy Head Sciences – Science Communication and Senior Curator of Human Biology and Medicine at Museum Victoria, […]

I eftermiddag kl.15 åbner vi vores nye udstilling The Chemistry of Life om stofskifteforskningens historie fra 1600-tallet til i dag. Det kommer til at foregår i Panumbygningen på Blegdamsvej med taler, reception — og en lille overraskelse. Efter udstillingens fjerde og sidste kapitel om nutidens stofskifteforskning vil der nemlig ikke blive sat et fedt punktum, […]

When a new museum is established, it is formed both by ideas of what the role of the medical history museum in society is, and by the context out of which that specific museum comes. The challenge of building new museums was approached from three very different angles at the Copenhagen conference in September. Kerstin […]

One of the sessions at the September conference dealt with the problems and challenges in collecting contemporary medicine. [biomed]yIq60pnz1pE[/biomed] Judy M. Chelnick presented the challenges of collecting today as being mainly lack of space, and the difficulty in trying to guess what objects will be historically valuable to your collections in the future. Read Judy’s […]

Many of the most essential things in recent biomedicine are too small or too fast for the naked eye to see. At the session The biomedical invisibles, at the conference in September, Henrik Treimo and Victoria Höög addressed the issue of how to represent such invisibles. How can we make objects, which escape an immediate […]