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Vores ph.d. stipendiat Anette har valgt et speculum som sin yndlingsting, på trods af at hun har meget ambivalente følelser omkring netop denne genstand. Som udgangspunkt syntes Anette, at speculummet var en irriterende, kold genstand. Så en dag blev hun bedt om at tegne det. Da hun så det ligge og glimte i lyset på tegnebordet, gik […]

The upcoming one-day conference ‘Curating Science’ at Kingston University in London on 6 May — bringing together curators and communicators from museums, galleries and new sites of engagement to explore the role of science in the exhibition — looks sort of interesting Intersections in Art, Science and Society: Nicola Triscott, Director, The Arts Catalyst Turning […]

Actual and potential readers of this blog — that is, everyone with an interest in contemporary medical science and technology in museums — might be interested in this year’s meeting in the Artefacts series on the theme ‘Conceptualizing, Collecting and Presenting Recent Science and Technology’, to take place 25-27 September, 2011, in the Museum Boerhaave, […]

Martha Fleming, who was head curator on our award-winning exhibition Split & Splice: Fragments from the Age of Biomedicine (2009-2010) will speak at the Danish Royal Academy of Art on Friday 1 April. The title of her talk is “Museum as Material, Exhibition as Scholarly Publication”. What does it mean to consider an institution to be a […]

Jeg var i går i gang med en søgning efter artikler om ‘successful aging’ i min foretrukne database af kilder til min ph.d., da det pludselig slog mig at mine søgeord ligner digtning. Se selv! Her er syv forskellige søgninger, foretaget næsten i træk: “Aging centenarians cognitive inconsistency models of the aging self … Facing […]

I’m a sucker for old analytical-philosophical virtues. That is, I like to analyse words and phrases in the light of common experience and ordinary language. I love to ask simple questions, like “What do you actually mean by X”? My desire for analytical philosophy was triggered again the other day when I recieved the call for a conference titled ‘Bio-objects for Europe?’ organised by the European […]

Martha Fleming, som var hovedkurator på vores udstilling Del & Hel: Brudstykker fra Biomedicinens Tid (2009-2010) taler om “Museum as Material, Exhibition as Scholarly Publication” på Kunstakademiets Billedkunstskoler, fredag den 1. april, kl. 13-15. What does it mean to consider an institution to be a kind of ‘material’? What sort of research is it possible […]

Historians and curators of medicine might be interested in the conference ‘The Life of New Materials’ organised by the Hagley Museum and Library, the Chemical Heritage Foundation, and the Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science ,17 – 18 November 2011. The conference will explore “the lives of the new materials that have made possible many of the technological advances […]

I ugens ‘Favourite Things’-film fortæller og undrer vores museumschef Thomas sig over sin egen fascination af microplaten, nutidens udgave af reagensglasset. Han beundrer den lavteknologiske genstand, der er en del af hverdagen på de fleste laboratorier, og som har været med til at revolutionere biomedicinen. Desuden har microplatens gennemsigtige plastik en stor æstetisk tiltrækning. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twBUZlLjeHA Se de tidligere ‘Favourite […]

Jeg er jo ny her, og med min baggrund i den molekylære biomedicin synes jeg, at det er på tide at vi får lidt biomedicinsk krydderi på bloggen 🙂 Jeg faldt i morges over en artikel i Nature, som jeg syntes, jeg ville dele med jer. Det er nemlig for første gang lykkedes forskere at udvikle […]

Når gæster på Medicinsk Museion for første gang træder inden for i auditoriet er reaktionen ofte et højlydt “Hold da op”. Og det er måske også et af Københavns mest overraskende rum, der er en oplevelse i sig selv. Akustikken i rummet er ganske særlig, og det er derfor med stor forventning, at Medicinsk Museion […]

The installation Genomic Enlightenment, which was pre-showed last night for a specially invited scentific audience interested in “deep sequencing” , has involved a lot of work. This is a movie about the skills, joy and team-work that went into making and putting up the beautiful, glimmering wave of microarrays. [biomed]mo30XgOEjFw[/biomed] The installation can be seen in the entrance hall of Medical Museion […]