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Ready for some digital intoxication again: Adrienne Fletcher, a graduate student in the Department of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida has made a social media museum research survey which says something about how (American) museums intend to and actually use social web media. Facebook is considered the most effective medium, with Twitter on a second place. Typical […]

Anyone who’s wondered why we’ve been idle for a week? Well, this was the second year that Adbusters promoted Digital Detox Week; it started on 19 April and ended last Saturday. The first Digital Detox Week was announced in an article by Zachary Colbert titled ‘The Era of Simulation: Consequences of a digital revolution’: The […]

Even though the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL is heading towards its ultimate death, it is still organising some pretty interesting seminars. For example, Maximilian Stadler’s (MPI-WG, Berlin) talk, titled ‘Cerebro-centrism and the History of the Neurosciences’, on Thursday 13 May at 4pm: ‘Surely the rising star of body parts in […]

Kan den teknisk dygtige Hippokrates som har lagt navn til de meget saglige kirurgiske værker i samlingen, være den samme som den Hippokrates man begejstres for i de mere argumenterende værker som f.eks. ”Ancient Medicine”, ”Airs, Waters, Places”, ”Epidemics”, ”Prognostic”, ”The Sacred Disease” og ”The Art”? Det spørgsmål finder ikke noget endegyldigt svar, men citater […]

I’ve just had my abstract for the Universeum meeting in Uppsala in mid-June accepted. I’m posting a somewhat expanded version of the abstract here as a contribution to our ongoing discussion about Medical Museion’s identity: Medical Museion at the University of Copenhagen is currently in a process of changing its identity. Founded in 1906, the Medical-Historical Museum […]

Her på Medicinsk Museion udstiller vi adskillige eksempler på det, der på engelsk har den fine betegnelse “human remains” – menneskelige rester. Vi bruger ofte den lidt mere distancerede benævnelse “humane præparater”, der ikke bare fortæller, at det er menneskelige rester, men at de er bevidst forarbejdede med henblik på bevaring for eftertiden, men man kunne jo også kan kalde det døde […]

Dagbladet Politiken bringer i dag en interessant artikel om den typiske museumsgæst. 55 år gammel, folkeskolelærer og bor i hovedstadsområdet for blot at nævne et par karakteristika. Undersøgelsen er udarbejdet af Kulturarvsstyrelsen (se mere her). Jeg glæder mig til at nærlæse rapporten, men umiddelbart var det noget helt andet der sprang i øjnene. Især dette citat: […]

The Wellcome Library is announcing a vacancy as Head of Discovery and Engagement. The successful applicant is supposed to play a pivotal role in making the Library’s outstanding collections accessible, help revolutionise the Library’s web presence and reading-room services, and lead its outreach, communication and marketing activities. For more info, see here. Closing date is 10 May.

It is difficult to believe, but when Gustav Holmberg, Malin Sandström and I organised a session on science communication and social web media at the 10th conference of The International Network on Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST-10) two years ago, ours was the only session which discussed social web media (especially blogging) in relation to […]

The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicne at UCL has circulated an announcement for a conference which “represents our swansong and statement of what we would have liked to have been allowed to achieve in the history of medicine”. Appropriately titled ‘The Future of Medical History’, the conference will take place on 15-17 July […]

As you can see from the comments on yesterday’s post, the closing of the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine seems unbelievable (or a April Fools Day prank). The Centre’s  outreach historian, Carole Reeves, has asked for the following message to be posted: It is with regret that the Wellcome Trust and University College London announce the […]

Som tidligere lovet, vil der i den kommende tid komme mere baggrundsinformation til hver af de 6 genstande fra udstillingen 6 ting og sager, og nu er turen kommet til den indkapslede øreknogle.  Den flamske anatom og læge Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) nævnes ofte som grundlæggeren af den moderne anatomi og var den første til at udtage det […]