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Vi har i den seneste tid diskuteret om man skal kommunikere på dansk eller engelsk – både intern på Museion men også med omverden – og i forbindelse med udviklingen af et nyt website til Museion er det pludselig blevet meget relevant. For hvordan laver vi et website som inkluderer så mange som muligt uden […]

Our own Lucy Lyons and Anette Stenslund are organising a two-day workshop titled ‘The Sensuous Object’ here at Medical Museion, September 29-30. ‘The Sensuous Object’ is an interdisciplinary, participatory workshop concerned with ways we actually engage with objects and aimed at researchers in all disciplines interested in the materiality of actual artefacts and ways of […]

For et par uger siden blev vores ecorche, populært kaldet muskelmanden, installeret på sin nye plads i udstillingen af anatomiske modeller. I videoen nedenfor kan man få et indtryk af den omfattende og krævende proces det var, at få muskelmanden godt på plads i sit nye hjem. Konservatoren Charlotte fortæller om opsætningen: ” Well, jeg kan […]

For those who are interested in new materialist and object-oriented philosophy, the fledgling journal Speculations is a great source for state of the art experimental writing in the speculative realist vein. The second volume has just been released and can be found here. Here is a snippet from the editors introduction, which gives an idea […]

In the introduction New Materialisms – Ontology, Agency, and Politics, another of the recent anthologies on materialism (you can read about some of the other here and here), editors Diana Coole and Samantha Frost discuss the notion of a ‘critical materialism’. Building on social constructionist arguments, they work to integrate the critical approach of post-structuralists […]

Der er så megen snak om proteiner! Hvad er de egentlig for nogle og hvordan ser de ud? Kort sagt er proteiner molekyler sammensat af såkaldte aminosyrer. Der findes tyve naturligt forekommende aminosyrer, som kan forbindes på utallige måder og danner lange kæder – peptider. De forskellige aminosyrers kemiske og fysiske egenskaber gør, at kæderne […]

The deluge of publications on the material turn and the new materialism continues. I wrote about two anthologies last week, and now Oxford University Press have a new anthology out, The Oxford Companion to Material Studies. The introductory chapter can be read here. Interestingly, the editors Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry, take a somewhat […]

Den sidste film i serien ‘Favourite Things’ om medarbejderne på Medicinsk Museions yndlingsting er en detektivhistorie, en film noir: Vores museumsinspektør Niels Christian har valgt at fortælle om den såkaldte ‘Niels Terkelsens hånd’ – en håndprotese fra 1800tallet  – og det detektivarbejde det har været at grave historien omkring genstanden frem. På Medicinsk Museion er der nemlig […]

Of course you can, but few history teachers actually take the opportunity. Museum collections remain a remarkably underutilised resource in academic history teaching. And the history of science, technology and medicine is no exception. Here at Medical Museion we have occasionally brought material objects into our medical history courses and also into the course we’re giving on medical science […]

Sometimes I’m asked what ‘biomedicine’ means. It’s rarely medical people that ask, but people from the humanities often do. I use to answer that ‘biomedicine’ is the emerging amalgamation throughout the 20th century of the life sciences and medical research, but I haven’t had an authoritative history of the term to refer to. Now there […]

Yes, we knew that: State-of-the-art: Museums use social media mostly for marketing reasons and PR. In many institutions social media (social networks, sharing platforms, blogs, wikis etc.) is treated as an information tool, not as a dialogue oriented and participatory media tool. (from here). This is indeed one of the major problems that enthuasiasts of […]

Hot on the heels of Museum Materialities comes another new anthology on museums studies, objects and materiality. It is entitled The Thing About Museums – Objects and Experience, Representations and Contestations and is available for pre-order on Amazon with a publishing date in September. The table of contents looks very promising and can be seen […]