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Once again, Twitter uncovered for me a small treasure box on the web. By following a link in a tweet I found a box full of stories of how social media and medicine and public health can benefit from each other. The treasure box is part of the NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine) 200 […]

At our next event on Thursday evening, accompanying the opening of new exhibition Experiences of Ageing, we’ll be inviting guests to investigate some of the overlooked aspects of medicine with their pen, lens, and hands. We’ll be exploring the quiet spaces that surround the drama of medical objects, everyday medical devices that are often ignored, […]

Social media is a gift to science communication. I am quite convinced about that. But is it particularly relevant for Public Health Science Communication? As many of the blog posts on this blog illustrates there is huge value and potential in using social media for public health science communication. And not only to disseminate research, […]

Bevæg dig fra Bredgade op af den store gamle stentrappe til Medicinsk Museions mægtige enkle udskårne grønne hoveddør.  Gennem denne ind i den storslåede lyse trappeindgangshal, der er flankeret af lyssøjler, stukloft og udsmykket med marmoreringer på væggene. Op af de krogede, kringlede og knirkende trapper, hvor datidens lægestuderende og forskere havde deres daglige gang. Mærk Københavns Universitets og medicinhistoriens […]

Sometimes it just seems silly to duplicate other people’s words when they have used just the right phrases and words to say something. The blog post “How to use Twitter” by PhD student in Molecular Pharmacology at the University of Aberdeen, Heather Doran gave me a little bit of that feeling. By sharing her own experiences, Heather writes […]

Under overskriften “Forskningskommunikation 2.0” skrev Kristian H. Nielsen igår på videnskab.dk om nogle af sine indtryk fra den lige afsluttede Public Communication of Science and Technology-konference i Firenze. Jeg har ikke noget at indvende mod Kristians referat af plenumsessionen som sådan. Det jeg ikke forstår, er at han bruger udtrykket”forskningskommunikation 2.0″ som overskrift på indlægget, uden at gøre opmærksom på, at der under hele […]

modtagelse af genstande, billeder og arkivalier, salg af billeder fra billedarkivet og besvarelse af forespørgsler. Det omfattende arbejde med at få ryddet op efter de alvorlige vandskader den 2. juli sidste år er endnu ikke afsluttet og der må derfor beregnes længere ekspeditionstid end normalt. Det tager i de fleste tilfælde en del tid at […]

One of the favourite topics in our museum discussions is ‘presence effects’, i.e., how close encounters with museum objects can convey other (and often deeper) kinds of experiences than those you get from reading a book or hearing a talk (see, e.g., Ken Arnold’s and my article in a recent issue of the journal Isis). Alistair […]

The traditional media image of what ‘a scientist’ looks like is pretty stereotypical, especially in film. The aim of the This Is What A Scientist Looks Like tumblr-site with the subtitle “Change the perception of who and what a scientist is or isn’t” is to overthrow “the overwhelming stereotype that science is conducted behind closed doors by unapproachable old, white […]

Aktivitetsniveauet er højt på det lille museum i Bredgade. I skrivende stund er en delegation på fem af vores forskere på PCST 2012 konferencen i Firenze, mens mange af os herhjemme er i gang med at lægge sidste hånd på den udstilling, som vi åbner i næste uge. I 2010-11 var den engelske kunstner Lucy Lyons tilknyttet Medicinsk Museion som postdoc under Center for Sund Aldring, og det er resultaterne af hendes arbejde, der nu skal vises frem for publikum.

I came across this tweet from Archimuse the other day: OK, it’s just an ephemeral twitter post. But both the original tweet and the retweet are from influential sites (Archimuse and Museums and the Web, respectively), whose words should normally be taken seriously. So when they say that museum gallery rooms which are not assisted […]

I forbindelse med Medicinsk Museions kommende udstilling, hvor der bl.a. vil blive kastet et blik på fedmekirurgien, planlægger vi at udstille eksempler på det apparatur man historisk set har benyttet i forbindelse med kirurgiske operationer: Anæstesiapparater, respiratorer og en hjerte-lunge maskine. Disse apparater vil blive placeret i en udstillingsinstallation der retter fokus mod kirurgiens maskinelle […]