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Always irritating,  but highly readable, Nicholas Carr quotes Clay Shirky saying: I remember, as a child, being bored. I grew up in a particularly boring place and so I was bored pretty frequently. But when the Internet came along it was like, “That’s it for being bored! Thank God! You’re awake at four in the morning? So […]

Hvad skal museer dog ikke stå model til! Sohns forlag udgav for en måned siden Erwin Neutzsky-Wulff’s skønlitterære bud på sagen om Jack the Ripper, som i 1880’erne dræbte og lemlæstede prostituerede kvinder i London. Til omslaget behøvede grafikeren en billede af en “gammeldags kirurgisk kniv”. Og hvor finder man sådan een? På Medicinsk Museion selvfølgelig! Her er resultatet: […]

Readers of this blog may remember that the 2010 biannual European medical museum conference was organised here at Medical Museion. The next biannual meeting, in 2012, will be hosted by our German sister museum, the Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, 13-15 September. The theme for the Berlin meeting is ‘Hidden Stories: What do medical objects […]

Social media and peer-reviewed journals. Some people would regard these two separate worlds. Perhaps they were once upon a time, but times change and more and more journals are embracing and exploring new uses and are expanding their traditional journal universe with blogs, Twitter accounts etc. An editorial retreat in The British Medical Journal focusing on […]

The organisers of a workshop titled ‘Science and Citizenship’, to take place in the Netherlands in June, point out that public understanding of science (PUS) scholars have argued for decades now that citizens aren’t just empty vessels into which science educators and disseminators can pour knowledge (the ‘deficit model’). Over and over again it has […]

The title of this conference, organised by Petra Lange-Berndt and Mechthild Fend in the AHRC Research Network “The Culture of Preservation” (Activating Stilled Lives: The Aesthetics and Politics of Specimens on Display) is alluring. The meeting will address “the challenges institutions face when dealing with formerly living entities and consider the aesthetics and politics of […]

Den 12. april afholder CPH PIX, i samarbejde med os, et arrangement i vores smukke, gamle auditorium. Lars von Triers film Epidemic har 25 års jubilæum, og hvad kunne være passende end at vise den i et rum, hvor generationer af kirurger og læger er blevet uddannet, og hvor kroppen og dens sygdomme er blevet […]

Har du læst vores vision? Den er lidt gemt væk her på siden, så jeg gentager den her: Som en del af Københavns Universitet virker Medicinsk Museion på den globale arena, men har også et ansvar som nationalt museum. Medicinsk Museions grundlæggende formål er at kvalificere den offentlige forståelse af sundhedsvidenskaberne og de medicinske teknologier – i fortiden, […]

Some of us from Medical Museion are going to try a new session format at this year’s Swedish STS-meeting, which takes place at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, 2-4 May. Titled “In Medias Res: The aesthetics of scientific, technological and medical things”, the idea of the session is to present some of […]

At the conference ‘Cultures of Anatomical Collections held in Leiden last month, several participants expressed worries about the fate of anatomical and pathological collection around the world. Following up on this, Ruth Richardson (King’s and Hongkong), Cindy Stelmackowich (New York Academy of Medicine and Carleton University), Rob Zwijnenberg (Leiden) and Rina Knoeff (Leiden) have drafted a […]

Last Thursday we held the first event in our new series Body | Medicine | Object. The inaugural event was entitled Making balance bodies: From leeches to pills (read more in Danish here), and explored different understandings of what it means to be healthy and in balance, and how im-balance is treated. Some 65 people […]

I fredags var jeg til symposium om web-tv og museumsformidling i Emdrup sammen med en hel del andre video-nysgerrige museumsfolk. Der var inviteret fine folk fra Tate og MoMA, der hver  især holdt oplæg om hvordan de havde taget deres første spæde skridt ind på videomediets røde løber (for flere år siden). Efter pausen kom […]