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Let me start with a quote: We need to acknowledge at the outset that museums are in the object acquisition business. New acquisitions are the lifeblood of museums. Like sharks that will die if they stop swimming, museums must collect to stay alive. These were the words of Tufts University art historian Andrew McClellan in […]

Thursday 13 October we opened a new gallery (Balance and Metabolism) and a new art installation (Genomic Enlightenment). Here are the opening speeches by Vice-Dean Birthe Høgh, Faculty of Health Sciences, Thomas Söderqvist. and Adam Bencard, who curated the exhibition: Vice-Dean Birthe Høgh: It’s a pleasure for me to take part in the opening of […]

I started writing some comments on Thomas’ stimulating and interesting post on why museums are so apolitical, but it turned into something lengthier so I thought I would post it separately. There is a deep and interesting fissure in how some of the questions in the post are articulated. The division that is mapped out […]

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I started the day in a really bad mood, but woke up and became excited when I saw the announcement of a lecture series at Goldsmiths in London titled “My best fiend” — a series of talks aimed at investigating the productivity of intellectual enmities. Schoolars have been invited to reflect on their academic enemies, i.e., not only […]

Hvis du følger os gennem et feed og læser dette i en RSS-læser som f.eks. Google Reader, skal du være opmærksom på, at vi har foretaget nogle ændringer. Da vi nu har integreret vore blogs i en helt ny hjemmeside, som dækker alle Medicinsk Museions aktiviteter, findes der nu også et helt nyt feed – […]

If you are following us through a feed and reading this in an RSS reader like Google Reader, please notice that we have made some changes that you should be aware of. As we have now integrated our blogs into a brand new website that covers all the activities of Medical Museion, we also have […]

I’ve just wiped the whiteboard in the lunch room — but only after having jotted down what we wrote during an intensive brainstorm session some time ago, triggered by the recent ICOM-konference on museums and politics in Copenhagen. Why are museums often so apolitical? Why are medical museums even more so? Why is our museum pronouncedly devoid of any views on the […]

To those of you who have been reading my posts about the Live-tweet brain surgery, which was performed at the Regional Epilepsy Center at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center (Aurora Health Care) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I myself have been wondering how the patient is doing and what experience came out of the whole Twitter event. […]

Philosopher Ian Bogost recently posted this lecture that he gave a month ago at the Third Object Oriented Ontology symposium held at The New School in New York. In the talk, he discusses the photographer Garry Winogrand, who is famous as a street photographer, documenting life in mid-20th century America through hundreds of thousands of […]

My general practitioner might just have visitied Wikipedia when he did a Google search on some health topic he came across and needed more information on. A surprise? Well, no not really. I myself use it both outside my professional life and in my public health research life, so why shouldn’t my doctor. However, it […]

V2_ , the Institute for the Unstable Media is, in their own words an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). V2_’s activities include organizing presentations, exhibitions and workshops, research and development of artworks in its own media lab, distributing artworks through its Agency, publishing in the field of art and […]