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During the last 48 hours my mind has mulled over the latest announcement for Medical Museion’s internal Thursday lunch seminar series — with our own PhD student Emma Peterson, who will present her work on methods for investigating tactile aesthetics. It’s a PhD project within the framework of Jan Eric Olséns project on the history of blindness from a […]

I just read about a great museum initiative in London — the Museums Showoff. You may have heard about Science Showoff — a forum for all kinds of people working with science communication, who meet and share their work in a performance-based way, “and then chew it over with a pint in hand”. It’s very […]

My proposal for a talk at Museums & The Web 2013 – published here: Many museums have already embraced social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc. as a means of interacting with their audiences. However, for many institutions the main goal of using social media is still only branding, marketing and redirecting traffic to main websites. […]

Some new years bring with them just a change of numbers – other new years bring bigger changes. 2013 seems to be of the later categories. At least if you consider moving to a different country a change. Starting from later this January, I will exchange my Copenhagen address for an address in Bonn, Germany. […]

Here at Medical Museion we’re interested in hosting future recipients of the recently announced Mads Øvlisen postdoc fellowship in art and biosciences. Beginning in 2013, the Novo Nordisk Foundation awards a 2-year postdoc fellowship in art and biosciences, aimed at giving “outstanding younger researchers the possibility, as part of their research career, to conduct larger […]

One of the things I’ve learned from the history of science during my academic career is that the historicist critique of presentism — that is, the critique that says that historical actors and events shall be interpreted in terms of their own time horizon and not from the vantage point of the present — is […]

[flickr id=”8284379336″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”right”]I de sidste tre måneder af 2012 har jeg på Twitter og Storify præsenteret mit løbende arbejde med konservering, fotodokumentering og registrering af Carlsberg Gamle Laboratoriums omfattende samling af aminosyrer, peptider og deres derivater, som blev reddet fra destruktion og doneret til Medicinsk Museion i 2010. Det var et […]

Når man interesserer sig for medicinhistorie, bliver man opmærksom på den store betydning private bogsamlere fik for udviklingen i 1400-tallet, og hvor stor prestige man i 1500-tallet knyttede til biblioteker.

I can’t believe that this is my post number 101. Actually, I had planned to do something special with blog post no. 100, but I only realised that it was my anniversary post when it was published. So the celebration will have to wait for post number 500. However, post number 101 can also be […]

All students passed! Not only are the students who took the graduate class in Public Health Science Communication this fall semester probably relieved – so is the teacher! The exam was perhaps a test of the students knowledge but just as much was it test of how well they were taught. It has been fun […]