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If you have watched the Norwegian movie, The Troll Hunter, you know how to beat trolls. Simply point a UV lamp at the troll and its body instantly turns to stone. According to the lead troll hunter, the “trolls’ adverse reaction to sunlight is due to their inability to convert Vitamin D into calcium, which […]

My own educational background is interdisciplinary. Public Health is interdisciplinary at its core and adding journalism to it adds a world of not just traditional journalists as we know them from newspapers, radio and television but also communication experts in various forms. Working with social media at Medical Museion in Copenhagen have added a new […]

Hør vores egen Adam Bencard fortælle på dr.dk/sundhed om Medicinsk Museions nye udstilling  ‘Balance og Stofskifte’. De kalder godt nok udstillingen ‘Krop i balance’, men pyt da! I DR1 Nyhederne i går blev vi kaldt for Medicinsk Historisk Museum. Det tager tid for nye brands at sive ind.

“Wish I were in London!”. This is one of my recurrent phrases on this blog — because so much interesting intellectually in the field of science communication, material culture studies and museums studies happens in London these days. Like on Wednesday 30th November, when Beverley Gibbs, a PhD-candidate from the Institute for Science and Society at the University […]

I fortsættelse af min forrige blog om lyset vil jeg beskrive de bevaringsmæssige tiltag, der er foretaget mod dagslysets nedbrydende energi i Medicinsk Museions nyåbnede udstilling BALANCE OG STOFSKIFTE.[flickr id=”6302035350″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”medium” group=”” align=”right”] Et af de første og vigtigste tiltag mod lyset i udstillingen Balance og stofskifte var at hæmme og at hindre […]

Universeum has grown into a potentially important organisation for the revival of European university museums. The annual meetings (the 12th was held in Padua last summer) could get an important role for raising the awareness among university administrations that their museums are not only worth preserving but, even better, worth expanding. I write “could get”, because — although I very […]

As readers of this blog have probably noticed by now, I don’t support the simplistic but widespread idea that museums of science, technology and medicine are primarily informal learning institutions. But even if explanations aren’t the primary goal of our kind of museums, we cannot entirely escape the problem of how to explain scientific ideas, methods and findings to our visitors. […]

Vi har to tørpræparater af menneskehoveder her på Medicinsk Museion, som oprindeligt var fremstillet som undervisningsmodeller til at vise blodkredsløbet i hovedet. Ved at injecere voks i årerne trådte disse tydeligt frem. For at vise om det var arterier (iltrigt blod fra hjertet) blev disse årer malet røde, mens vener (iltfattigt blod tilbage til hjertet) blev malet […]

I anledning af det i år er ca. 30 år siden AIDS blev en realitet, har Læger uden Grænser inviteret 13 billedkunstnere og 15 forfattere til at producere værker til en udstilling, der sætter perspektiv på AIDS-situationen i verden i dag. Udstillingen For Livet åbner på Rigshospitalet i dag, fredag 4. november kl. 16 — den […]

I’ve always felt making an exhibition was the equivalent to writing a book or making a work of art. In other words, I expect authors and artists to express their visions and ideas. I would never dream of writing or reading a book based on reader research (although I suspect some authors of popular crime novels do exactly […]

A “must read about WHO and social media” it said in one of the tweets I came across on Twitter this morning, linking to an article in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization called “Mixed uptake of social media among public health specialists“. And true, it was a must-read for me: 1) I have […]

Lægen Dioscorídes fra Anazarbos i Kilikien (i Lilleasien) ved vi meget lidt om, men hans bøger blev flittigt brugt som standardværket om lægemidler i over 1500 år.