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Science Museum have just aired their new history of medicine website, Brought to Life. Intended for students and educators, it shows some 2,500 newly-made images of objects from the museum’s history of medicine collection together with historical interpretations, interactives and thematic introductions. The plan is to let it grow to 4000 images over the next year. Hopefully we’ll be […]

We’ve just finished the application (in Danish) for a major grant to develop and expand Medical Museion: See it in greater resolution here: Unfortunately, the foundations we are sending it to, don’t have the software to disentangle the Wordle-cloud, so we will have to send them a more conventional text version. We will be back with further info when (or […]

The history of pharmaceutical and biotech history is pretty difficult to get an overview of. Some daring visualizations would be most helpful. Here’s a promising approach: mktlgcs has created this visualization of FDA pharma application approvals 2000-2008 — an excellent way to get an overview of the activities of the global pharmaceutical industry (all major manufacturers want an FDA approval to operate on the […]

Pharmaceutical drugs — especially late 20th century drugs — is a pretty challenging topic for medical museums because of the limited variety of material artefacts available for display. Vials, capsules, tablets, bottles, cartons and prescriptions look much the same; nor are they among the most evocative kinds of artefacts. Curators have to work hard to compensate for the lack of ‘innate’ presence effects in most objects related to pharmaceutical drugs. It’s […]

Kære alle Medicinsk Museion er i dagens udgave af Politiken. I avisens særlige museums tillæg kan man, under overskriften “Uden bedøvelse”, læse følgende: “Et besøg på Medicinsk Museion er ikke harmløs adspredelse; man gyser, væmmes, fascineres og bliver klogere af de mange morbide instrumenter, præparater og fortællinger om lægevidensskabens vanskelige fødsel.” Det falder, spøjst nok, […]

We are currently preparing a small exhibit on the culture and history of proteins and protein research, which is planned to open Friday 4 september in connection with the official opening of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research. The aim of the exhibition — which shall be placed in the main hall of the Faculty of Health Sciences’s Panum building on U Copenhagen North Campus […]

De to sidste buster i Museions auditorium falder uden for den historiske sammenhæng, idet de stammer fra perioden efter Akademiets ophævelse i 1841, og man kan derfor diskutere om de er de rette til at optræde i denne ”hall of fame”. Jeg vil mene at mængden af forhåndenværende buster og disses relation til populære museums­gen­stan­de […]

Medicinsk Museion arbejder i øjeblikket på en udstilling om proteinforskningens kultur og historie for at stimulere interessen blandt studerende, ansatte og gæster i Det Sundhedsvidenskabelige Fakultets hovedbygning (Panumbygningen) på Blegdamsvej. Udstillingen skal placeres i vandrehallen i nærheden af det nye kantineområde. Den vil åbne fredag den 4. september i forbindelse med den officielle indvielse af Novo Nordisk Foundation […]

No biomedical lab could function without pipettes — the ‘containment of precision-measured transfer of liquids between containers’, as I use to think of them. Everyone who has a crush on pipettes (and I tell you, there are many of us, as you can see in this Eppendorf video) will just love the new blog Labtutorials in biology. Created by Bálint Bálint (a junior lecturer at […]

Wellcome Film (which is part of the Wellcome Library in London) announces the launch of their own YouTube channel (see more here), Very nice initiative — but how do you get access to the movies??? Added 9pm: Aha, here they are: http://www.youtube.com/user/WellcomeFilm (couldn’t find the link on their website, but found it via YouTube)

Den 28 februar åbner et af mine svenske favoritmuseer, Kalmar Konstmuseum (se tidligere post her), udstillingen “Spridd isolerad konst” som er lavet som en kommentar til et af kunstverdens centrale problemstillinger: Hvad er et kunstobjekt?  Ikke helt uinteressant, når man tager i betragtning at de fleste af vores historiske museumsgenstande er (eller kan betragtes som) kunst- eller kunstindustrielle genstande: […]

The quest for bringing new and unexplored areas of human life and practice under the conceptual reign of the arts and humanities is endless. For example, the “very short conference” organized by Tate Modern (?) on 20 June — on the theme of shortness: This event will bring together practitioners and theoreticians of the humanities, arts and sciences […]