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Installationen Genomic Enlightenment som afsløres idag, mandag, har efterhånden været et par måneder undervejs. Den betagende smukke bølge af glimtende genchips, der hænger i fiberlyskabler ned fra loftet, har både krævet sved og tårer, grin og gråd at få sat op. Her på bloggen har vi tidligere skrevet om genchipsenes ankomst og om arbejdet med […]

On my continuing investigation into the aesthetics of rollators I was told about the Danish Queen Ingrid. After falling and breaking her hip, she appeared in the summer of 1998 for the first time publically using a rollator. Photographs and news footage of her shows her dressed in a glamorous couture gown and pushing a […]

Torsdag den 17. marts var en speciel dag i museumsverden. Det var nemlig Picture A Museum-dag. Idéen bag dette koncept er simpelt: få alle på museet – gæster som ansatte – til at dokumentere deres dag gennem fotografier. Vi på Medicinsk Museion deltog naturligvis også i denne særlige event! Vi startede dagen med fastelavnsboller og kaffe […]

A fairly new (from August 2010) blog called Discard Studies explores the contemporary throw-away culture. One of their recent hot topics is plastic pollution of the oceans. All oceans, especially the North Pacific, contains millions of tons of discarded man-made plastic items. They are largely non-biodegradable, which means they will only disappear slowly through physical wear — which can take many […]

Last year, we were the proud recipients of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits, an award that recognises museums and exhibits that interpret the history of technology, industry and engineering to the general public. Now SHOT is inviting nominations for the 2011 Dibner Award. Exhibits are eligible for […]

Representing one the peripherally participating institutions in the Nordic Network for Medical History, I’m pleased to broadcast the good news about the upcoming summer course on ‘Historicisation’ to be held in Bergen, 24–26 August, 2011. The aim of the course is to teach postgraduate students how medical historical research can be ‘historicised’. As the organisers write, […]

We’re pretty proud of being the fourth most energetic contributor to Flickr and Twitter’s joint Picture a Museum Day event yesterday. The top contributor was Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam with 758 pics, and we were #4 with 197 contributions. See all of our 197 pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/53284874@N02/sets/72157626284530510. The day was expertly planned and managed by our new social web officer, Daniel, […]

I ugens ‘Favourite Things’ film fortæller vores samlingsleder og konservator Ion Meyer en sand historie: I 1848 blev der på fødselsstiftelsen i København født to meget ualmindelige siamesiske tvillinger. Det var to piger sammenvokset i bækkenpartiet, såkaldte ischiopagi. Ved hjælp af en amme lykkedes det at holde pigerne i live i 11 dage, men man var fra starten […]

Jan Cherlet, a PhD student at the Dept of Philosophy at the University of Bologna and the Dept of Third World Studies at Gent University, asks the best question to the science studies community I’ve seen for a long time: Dear colleagues Which “social study of science” publication would convince scientists themselves? I seek a […]

Den sorte sygebåre er kommet til London og har indtaget sin plads på udstillingen Dirt på Wellcome Collection. Med hjertet i halsen blev båren pakket og sendt afsted fra Medicinsk Museion i sidste uge, og med sommerfugle i maven stod jeg og ventede på at vi skulle pakke båren ud på museet i London. Det var derfor en stor […]

The announced talk by Andy Williams (Cardiff) about “A crisis of science journalism?” at the next London Public Understanding of Science seminar, made me think about why science journalism actually is declining in quality — and not only in the UK, but also here in the Scandinavian countries. Based on internet surveys and interviews, Williams suggests (in his abstract distributed on the […]

Cannot understand why I haven’t come across The Neuro Times blog — a historical blog dedicated to neurology and the neurosciences — before. Full of good stuff and a good example to follow.