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A month ago, the Director of the Polish National Museum in Warsaw, Piotr Piotrowski, resigned after the museum’s Board of Trustees had rejected his strategy for the development of the museum. The resignation took place only two years after the Board of Trustees had offered Piotrowski the position on the basis of his proposal for […]

Astrid Møller-Olsen, der er webmedarbejder her på museet, har netop sat stedets øvrige medarbejdere på en sjov og udfordrende opgave, der går ud på, at vi alle skal finde vores yndlingsgenstand herinde på museet. Det er faktisk lidt svært at udvælge én ting, da man, som forholdsvis ny medarbejder, hele tiden får øjnene op for nye […]

Weekendavisen hævder i dag, at KU-neurobiologen Milena Penkowa har brugt forskningsmidler til private formål. Hvis påstandene er rigtige, er de måske et udtryk for hovedaktørens udtalelser i et interview til videnskab.dk for halvandet år siden: Jeg ser muligheder og optimeringsbehov i alt omkring mig, ikke kun i forskningen. Af samme grund er næsten alle mine ejendele inklusive min lejligheds inventar blevet ændret, […]

Drew Berry, the outstanding molecular animator at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, says (according to Science Roll): Scientists have always done pictures to explain their ideas, but now we’re discovering the molecular world and able to express and show what it’s like down there I know Melbourne, Australia, in ‘down under’. […]

Many of us probably believe that participatory media is something new. But in the newly published History of Participatory Media: Politics and Publics, 1750–2000 (edited by Anders Ekström, Solveig Jülich, Frans Lundgren, and Per Wisselgren, Routledge, 2010) it is argued that “scholarly discussions on participatory media … are all too often obscured by a rhetoric […]

At the conference in September, Ken Arnold and Thomas Söderqvist presented 15 dogmas for museum practice. Inspired by the Danish film directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme95, Ken and Thomas’  list included points like “Leave out as much as possible”, “Never show ready-made science”, “Avoid artificial lighting”, “Use no replicas or reproductions, just […]

The new thing in canned meat is unicorn: (from Aman Agah at Street Anatomy) Maybe the next thing is stem cell relish.

This session at the conference in September circled around the role of art in the museum, and how museums and artists can and should work together. The first speaker, Karen Ingham, emphasized that the concept of art in museums essentially refers to interdisciplinary happenings and should always be a product of dialogue. She talked about […]

We were so pleased to hear, a couple of days ago, that our own Jesper V. Kragh has just secured a two year external research grant for his project “The History of Drug Abuse in Denmark, 1870-1955” from the Danish Research Council for Culture and Communication. Jesper distinguishes two different narratives about drug abuse. One […]

Jeg begyndte at læse medicin i 1962. Så vidt jeg husker havde man kemi og anatomi det første år, og fra det andet år også fysiologi og biokemi. Den danske lærebog i biokemi var F. Schønheyders i 2. udgave fra 1953. Den var jo nok forældet på det tidspunkt og var i sin udformning ikke […]

Last winter, I was invited to contribute to a thematic issue (edited by Oren Harman) on scientific biography for the Journal of the History of Biology.  I decided to revisit and revise a genre analysis I had written a couple of years earlier and the result is an article titled ‘The Seven Sisters: Subgenres of bioi of contemporary […]

Blogposterne om den hippokratiske skriftsamling ligger nu på Medicinsk Museions hjemmeside. Jeg har valgt at afslutte serien ved at begrænse mig til de skrifter som er udgivet i den græsk-engelske Loebseries 8 bind, da de i øjeblikket er de mest tilgængelige. Det er en fordel at have posterne liggende samlet, fordi man så kan bedre […]