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Den er vanskelig at iagttage med det blotte øje. Den er svær at pege på og måle. Alligevel kan den fornemmes. Næsten øjeblikkeligt. Vi mærker, når vi træder ind i den og ud af den, eller når den bliver en anden. Den slår stemningen an og kan give os en følelse af behag eller ubehag. […]

“Why Proteins Have to Die So That We May Live”. This was the title of the talk given by Nobel Laureate Dr. Aaron Ciechanover at the international symposium entitled Protein Chemistry: Applications to Combat Diseases held at the University of Copenhagen earlier this week. Three days packed with talks from the world’s leading protein chemists and […]

“While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating”, says the back-cover of Exhibiting Madness in Museums: Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display, edited by Catharine Coleborne and Dolly MacKinnon. A first sketch to a comparative history of collections of psychiatric objects, the volume, which will be published […]

I have just had a proposal accepted by Nordisk Sommeruniversitet who will be holding their Summer Symposium in Falsterbo, Sweden, July 30th – August 7th, 2011. NSU is organized by a Swedish non-profit organization sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers. It focuses on fostering cross-disciplinary research networks in the Nordic countries There are eight study […]

Dansk Blindesamfund fejrer sit 100-års jubilæum med en udstilling på Post & Tele Museum. I udstillingen indgår denne smukke skrivekugle med blindskrift fra Medicinsk Museions samling. En skrivekugle er en slags skrivemaskine, hvor tastaturet er formet som en halvkugle, og papiret ligger på en rulle under halvkuglen. På denne specielle skrivekugle er hver tast et bogstav […]

In small ethnically homogenous countries like Denmark, Poland and Finland, there is a thick aura of nationalism around museums. For that reason alone, the planned conference on ‘Transnational History of Museums’, 17-18 February 2012 seems like a relief. Organised by the Institut für Kunstwissenschaft und Historische Urbanistik at TU-Berlin, the aim of the conference is to go […]

A couple of years ago, Camilla Mordhorst and I were playing with the idea that the museum was like a blog. What would Medical Museion be like of it was modelled on Biomedicine on Display? I thought about our discussions when I read Mia Ridge’s report from the recent Digital Communication and Heritage meeting at Nordiska Museet in […]

Som rosinen i pølseenden af Science Communication-føljetonen kommer her – en dag forsinket – Nanna Gerdes’ præsentation af sig selv: Siden august 2009 har jeg været tilknyttet Medicinsk Museion, og d. 1.februar 2011 blev jeg ansat som konservator under Science Communication. Inden da var jeg i 1 1/2 år ansat på Nationalmuseets Bevaringsafdeling i forskellige projektansættelser i […]

Thing afficionados still have a week left to consider an abstract for the conference ‘Things in culture, culture in things’, to be held at the University of Tartu, Estonia, 20-22 October, 2011 — three days about things in culture, cultures in things “and lest we forget, all that stuff in between”. The call for papers claims that “since the […]

A lot of scientific and non-scientific discoveries are known to have been done by chance or even accident. We all know the story of how Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered penicillin when one of his staph bacteria cultures got infected by a fungus. Another example that might not be as well-known is sildenafil, also known as […]

Her kommer endnu en præsentation i serien af Science Communication-ansatte på Museion – Niels Christian Vilstrup-Møller: Jeg startede på Medicinsk Museion som museumsinspektør den 1. maj 2010, efter at jeg var blevet færdig som historiker i starten af året. I den første periode reviderede jeg arkivregistranten, begyndte oprydningen i magasinerne og tog mig af forskellige […]

Score one for the usefulness of facebook in science. In January and February, a group of scientists, led by Dr. Brian Sidlauskas, assistant professor of fisheries at Oregon State University (OSU), had been conducting the first ichthyological survey on Guyana’s Cuyuni River. The purpose of the study was to find out which species of fish […]