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As mentioned in a previous blogpost, I’m currently doing a ph.d.-project here at Medical Museion concerning the history of the concept of successful aging in neuroscience and its relation to ideas about cognitive enhancement. Part of my work, therefore, is going to conferences like this one, held in Copenhagen last week: The conference was arranged […]

Prognoser spillede en større rolle for de hippokratiske læger end at kunne sætte navn på en sygdom. Det gav tryghed og tillid hos patienterne og respekt blandt kollegerne, hvis man kunne udpege de vigtigste symptomer og forudsige en akut sygdoms forløb ud fra erfaring med lignende tilfælde. Det er også det bedste udgangspunkt for behandling, […]

Medical museums are usually full with old and new medical science instruments. But they tend to be kept in storage because it is difficult to display them in a meaningful way. It’s much easier to put moulages, pickled organs and surgical instruments on show. Medical science instruments usually need truckloads of description and contextualisaton to […]

  Den 8/2/2010 åbner Medicinsk Museions nye udstilling, Healthy Aging – a lifespan approach, i Panums Instituttets vandrehal. Derfor har der bag Museions mure, på det seneste, været heftig aktivitet. De Sorte Drenges uvurderlige bidrag til denne udstilling har været, i samarbejde med Jonas Paludan, at påmontere de sorte akrylplader, der nu sidder bag på Liv Carlé Mortensens portrætserie fra 2007; 100 lysår, der også […]

Speaking about Jim Edmonson and the Dittrick Museum (i.e., the medical museum at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland), I’ve forgotten to tell you that they have just launched an institutional blog called — ‘Dittrick Museum’. Follow it here. Welcome to the medical museum blog sector!

I just had a long and nice phone conversation with Jim Edmonson at the Dittrick Museum in Cleveland. We talked, among other things, about museum blogging — and Jim claimed, among other things, that writing blog posts is probably a good preparation for writing artefact showcase labels. I agreed in principle, but after hanging up I realised that Jim is both […]

As I’ve announced in an earlier post, we’re opening the next show in the external exhibition area in the Panum Building — titled ‘Healthy Aging: A Life Span Approach’ — on next Monday (8 February) at 2pm. Yesterday, exhibition architect Mikael Thorsted and our own museum assistant Jonas Paludan were hanging some of Liv Carlé Mortensen’s colleages of […]

På mandag åbner udstillingen Healthy Aging – a lifespan approach på Panum Instituttet. Her er nogle billeder fra opsætningsarbejdet, der foregår i disse dage. (PS.Bloggens billedbehandlingsmuligheder driller mig, så bær over med den underlige sideopsætning.)

As Bente writes on our Danish blog (Museionblog), we thought at first that Sven Erik Hansen (former consultant rheumatologist, now guest researcher here at Medical Museion) had a fit of belated Xmas nostalgia when he hanged this ‘thing’ made of coloured gift wrappage ribbons in our lunch room earlier today. But it’s actually more museum-related than we first thought. Turned out […]

Jeg tror, der var flere, som mistænkte vores gæsteforsker Sven Erik Hansen for at være ramt af et anfald forsinket julestemning, da han i dag hængte han denne dekoration op i vores frokoststue. Det er ihvertfald tydeligt for enhver, at han har gravet dybt i kassen med gavebånd, men rent faktisk er der en mening med galskaben. Vi (og det vil […]

[This is a guest blog post by Martin Fenner, who normally blogs at Gobbledygook. It raises a problem of great importance for the preservation of the contemporary medical heritage] The first email was sent in 1964, but that first email has been lost forever. – Lucy Nowell As we have moved to digital formats both for […]

Hvad har sygekassebriller, elfenbensgebisser, et høreapparat indbygget i en dametaske og en masse stokke til fælles? De har naturligvis det til fælles at de alle kan ses i den kommende udstilling Healthy Ageing, der åbner i Panum Bygningens vandrehal d. 8. februar. De briller, gebisser, høreapparater og stokke der er en del af udstillingen repræsenterer […]