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We have a old and pretty dysfunctional website. Shall we rebuild it (using the university’s system) or not? All other great museums have fancy, big websites with lots of rich media functionalities. They cost hundreds of hours and enormous sums of money to build and maintain. Are they worth it? Or are the days of big websites numbered? Mitch […]

Da vi lavede særudstillingen Del og hel. Brudstykker fra biomedicinens tid indsamlede vi et stort antal genstande som det først nu er blevet tid til at se på. Vi var bl.a. så heldige at vi modtog en del genstande fra firmaet NUNC der nu er en del af Thermo Fisher Scientific. Her producerer de forskellige […]

The recently published Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines, edited by Ericka Johnson och Boel Berner (Ashgate), might be interesting reading for medical museum curators. Says the blurb: The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions […]

Just learned from Beth how to embed a YouTube video  into a powerpoint slide — see this screencast. You need Powerpoint 2007 (and of curse a live Internet connection). Beth wants to put this trick into the Trainer’s Bag of Social Media Tricks.

We have just started a search for 1-2 positions at the level of Associate Professor (alternatively Assistant Professor). As readers of this blog probably knows, Medical Museion is an integrated research and museum unit for promoting medical science communication based on the material and visual medical heritage. The research profile is centered around the contemporary history of […]

I forbindelse med en særudstilling i 2010 indgik seks nøje udvalgte genstande fra den medicinske kulturarv, der indtil da havde været omhyggeligt opbevaret i Medicinsk Museions omfattende samlinger. Blandt disse seks genstande var et af museets største klenodier præsenteret: Kejserinde Dagmars rejseapotek.

Fire småskrifter i den hippokratiske samling handler om nogle specielle skavanker og deres behandling. Skrifterne er meget tekniske og detaljerede, men deres hippokratiske ægthed er for en gangs skyld temmelig sikker. De er nemlig nævnt både hos Erotian fra 1.årh.e.Kr. og hos Galen fra 2.årh.e.Kr. I betragtning af at Hippokrates levede i 5.årh.f.Kr., var Erotian […]

The Hybrid Art Science Networking Association, which is led by Leeds-based artist Paul Digby and Sheffield-based scientist and artist Lizz Tuckerman, enables artists and scientists of all disciplines to meet, and encourages cross-disciplinary interaction. It is supported by Arts Council England, Yorkshire. The Hybrid Art and Science Exhibition was held in various locations around Sheffield. […]

På billederne herunder ses et ganske almindelig stempel. Ikke ligefrem noget strålende kulturhistorisk objekt med relation til den medicinske kulturarv – eller hvad? Stemplet var en af de genstande som vi indsamlede på oprydningsdagen på Panum, som jeg tidligere har skrevet om her. Nu er det så blevet tid til at vurdere om genstanden skal blive en del af […]

In the early morning — just before Johanna began to make the usual noices to indicate she wanted to be transferred to our bed for a last cosy hour of sleep — my eyes fell on this sentence in a piece by Douglas Haddow in Adbusters (‘The coming barbarism’): Rather than Bourriaud’s altermodernism, we should pursue an […]

Den 18. marts 2010 afholder Historisk Foredragsforening i Odense et foredrag om Thomas Bartholin med titlen, Thomas Bartholin – dansk anatom i 1600-tallet. Aftenens foredragsholder er Inge Mønster-Kjær og programmet ser spændene ud: Anatomen Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) var central i berømmelsen af Københavns Universitet i 1600-tallet. Hans virke er en samling af gode historier, om […]

All of us who have been following Nina’s blog about museum 2.0 are happy to hear that her book project about visitor participation in museums, science centers, libraries and art galleries has come to a temporary end. She describes The Participatory Museum as “a practical guide to visitor participation … the nuts and bolts of successful […]