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Click here for the newsletter, in Danish and English. 4th newsletter from Medical Museion in 2013. “Explore the substance and science of fat” – numbers are limited for this hands-on event. “Under The Skin: Follow the construction of the new exhibition” – Follow the process. “Web exhibition: behind the scenes on ‘Biohacking – Do It Yourself!’” – Explore the […]

Klik her for nyhedsbrevet på dansk og engelsk. 4. nyhedsbrev fra Medicinsk Museion i 2013. “Stadig få billetter til tegn & sans fedme-eventen” – Deltag i søndagens hands-on event “Er det ét fedt?’. “Under huden: Følg med i opbygningen af den nye udstilling” – Følg processen på Internettet. “Webudstilling: bag om ‘Biohacking – Gør-det-selv!”” – Kom […]

I wrote the other day that taking down museum exhibitions could be as much fun as building new ones. That was a pretty spontaneous tongue-in-cheek comment triggered by our conservator Nanna Gerdes’ enthusiastic twitter series of images (see @NaGerdes and storified here, here and here) from the process of taking down three old exhibition rooms […]

We’ve had two specialists in colour history visting from the National Museum of Denmark. They have worked hard grinding down selected areas of the walls and doors in the museum’s Titkens Gaard building to find out what colours the new exhibition room have had since the mid 18th century. See also Nanna’s tweets here. For […]

As I wrote in an earlier post, we are now on the track of building up the new semi-permanent exhibition ‘Under the Skin’ in the museum’s Tietkens Gaard building. In the last couple of months, our conservator Nanna Gerdes has worked hard to take down the three former exhibition rooms and packed the artefacts for […]

We are now in the first phase of the construction of our new 3500 square feet semi-permanent exhibition here at Medical Museion — provisionally titled ‘Under the Skin’ — to be opened in the late autumn of 2014. The exhibition will show some of best specimens from our big collection of normal and pathological anatomical […]

Want to explore fat with pencil and pastry fork? We seem to live in a world obsessed with fat. Obesity is described as a worldwide health threat, and we are bombarded by diet advice. But fat itself is a mystery. While we know that “full fat” foods can be bad for us, we also know […]

In my research on the use of social media in emergency management and communication and my hunt for good case studies, I have come across a knowledge hub, that I thought I’d share with you. I was of course introduced to it by wonderful people on Twitter (thank you Eva Alisic). The website is called The Australian Emergency […]

”Graecum est, non legitur” var en formel som virkede blandt læger og andre latinkyndige i middelalderen på samme måde som når elever i dag spørger deres lærer: ”Skal vi op i det her til eksamen?” og får svaret nej.

In the latest issue of the European Journal of Public Health, a wish list for what public health training should look like in the 21st century is giving by Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine: Seven goals for public health training in the 21st century Having a […]

Ken Arnold (Wellcome Collection) and I had a joint sesssion titled “Integrating research, acquisitioning, curation, exhibition making and events in museums” at the Danish national museum meeting in Horsens, two weeks ago. Based on this predistributed session abstract: Drawing on our experiences from the Medical Museion and the Wellcome Collection, respectively, we suggest that a […]

Visit the new online version of Biohacking – Do It Yourself! and explore the open biology lab at Medical Museion through photos, recipes, texts and videos: [flickrset id=”72157632996879533″ thumbnail=”thumbnail” photos=”7″ overlay=”false” size=”small”] In the online exhibition you can look at pictures and videos from events in the open lab, browse through links to hacker spaces […]