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En af Medicinsk Museions mangeårige medarbejdere, lektor Jesper Vaczy Kragh, har fået en to-årig bevilling fra Socialstyrelsen til et socialhistorisk projekt som skal kikke på de udviklingshæmmedes, børnehjemsbørns og sindslidendes historie i perioden 1945-1976. Projektet, som er et samarbejde med Svendborg Museum og Syddansk Universitets Center for Velfærdsforskning, er tilkommet efter at Kristeligt Dagblad satte fingeren på […]

One of our PhD-students, Anette Stenslund, is currently visiting researcher at the Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal. Under the heading “Ambient plasticity: aesthetics of the hospital”, she investigates everyday aesthetics and is currently exploring the atmosphere of the hospital by emphasizing smell impressions: To most people, the hospital smell is unpleasant and uncomfortable: Why […]

Until recently I thought the use of mannequins in museums was an almost extinct species of exhibition design. We removed the last mannequins from Medical Museion’s public exhibitions more than a decade ago and have only kept two of them in the staff area for the fun of scaring the shit out of new employees […]

Juletid er nostalgi, tradition og dukker! Også i år lancerer Medicinsk Museion en julekalender til alle, der har lidt svært ved at vente til det bliver juleaften. Vi har valgt at videreføre en tradition – både inden for den danske julekalender og i udstillingernes verden – og er stolte af at kunne præsentere: Dukkerne på museet.

At Medical Museion we’re currently working on the project From Kitchen Sink to Museum: Doing and Debating Synthetic Biology, in collaboration with biohackers from the Copenhagen ‘maker space’ Labitat. We have invited the biohackers to use the museum space as their space – as a laboratory where workshops and events will take place, thereby communicating […]

There are still a few spaces left for ‘It’s Not What You Think – Communicating Medical Materialities – an interdisciplinary workshop at Medical Museion, March 8th-9th 2013. Those interested are invited to submit up to 300 words, one page of text/image, a short piece of audio or video, or a small package communicating why they would […]

I can’t think of a more appropriate place than Twitter to come across an article about the use of social media to disseminate public health information. I regularly do a Twitter search for ‘public health social media’ and very often come across new interesting initiatives, reports, meetings etc. Today’s finding was the article Putting the Public […]

I sidste uge blev verden beriget med hele tre publikationer om grisegenomer. Én i Nature, én i PNAS og en i Gigascience. Helt urelateret befandt jeg mig til et SHARE symposium, som handlede om grise – og så også lidt andre dyr. Nærmere bestemt “next-generation” dyremodeller. Og der blev skam også talt om grise. Især den […]

Steven Lubar — director of the public humanities programme at Brown University and keen observer of things museological — has just drawn his Twitter followers’ attention to a “nice” blog post on the problems of collecting contemporary artefacts written by National Museum of American History curator Carlene Stephens. Stephens’ blog post revolves around Stanley (a driver-less vehicle that won a historic […]

Wow, I can’t believe time has passed so quickly. Next to me is a pile of exam papers completed by the students of the graduate course in Public Health Science Communication at the University of Copenhagen. I feel like I just had the first introduction module, but yet I am almost done reading all these papers. Until […]

In October 2012 Medical Museion opened the new exhibition ‘Obesity – what’s the problem’. After a long period of development and production the exhibition is now finally being used by a real live audience, and we – the exhibition team – are being confronted with their reactions. One of the more surprising ones being the […]

Caterina Albano is one of those interesting combined scholars-curators, who works on topics that any medical museum director would love to include in the portfolio. Having a PhD background in Renaissance Studies, Albano focuses her research and curatorial work on projects that relate bioscience, art and culture and explore topics like the unconscious, the history […]