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Så er der kun en uge til den nye udstilling The Chemistry of Life åbner, og i Panumbygningens vandrehal har der hele ugen hersket et muntert virvar. Sammen med Adam og Nanna, som er hhv. hovedkurator og konservator på udstillingen, har arkitekt Mikael Thorsted og teknikere fra Exponent Stougaard A/S myldret rundt og installeret lys, […]

In case you have forgotten where to find Medical Museion on the (social) web: • Biomedicine on Display: www.corporeality.net/museion • Museionblog: www.museionblog.dk (in Danish) • Facebook: www.facebook.com/medicalmuseion • Twitter: www.twitter.com/medicalmuseion • Youtube: www.youtube.com/user/medicalmuseion • Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/53284874@N02/ • and, of course, our traditional home page: www.museion.ku.dk

God iagttagelse af Claus forleden dag — hovedet på sømmet! Penge og ord – den entreprenante refleks Jeg har iagttaget en ny rygmarvsreaktion: At forskere, som allerede står på universiteternes lønningsliste, straks, når de får ideer til at samarbejde om nye projekter, pr. automatik tænker dem som større ansøgninger til en forskningsfond eller et forskningsråd, […]

The challenge of how to display fetal bodies was attacked from very different angles at the September conference. Morten Skydsgaard introduced us to the exhibition The incomplete child, in which the idea was to show the deviant body in its own right. He emphasized the importance, especially in controversial displays, of giving the visitors time […]

Syntetisk biologi er ikke nogen stor grej idag. Men der er meget hype omkring hvordan den her form for biologisk ingenjørkunst vil kunne forændre vores fremtid som mennesker, med organreservedele og det hele. Så som museum må vi være opmærksom på hvordan vi skal forholde os til indsamling af genstande fra denne tidlige fase af […]

At the conference in September, Kim Sawchuk talked about why, in this micro-molecular age, we are still hanging on to the fantasy of travelling inside the anatomical spaces of our own bodies. Kim admits that she herself has become what she calls a ‘biotourist’, a person who visits medical museums in order to experience the […]

Ugh! Last week I visited New York. What really spoke to my senses and touched my emotions in a provocative and morbid way was a toe-curling exhibition of works by the American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988) at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art. To be honest the works on display managed to freak me out […]

Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein’s presentation at the conference on “Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums” in Copenhagen last month was about the politics of knowledge production, with medical museums as a case study. One of Roger’s arguments was that the museums, by placing their historical objects in new, global contexts, […]

I disse uger er vores konservator Nanna og hendes hjælpere i fuld gang med nedtagningen af Healthy Ageing-udstillingen i Panumbygningens vandrehal for at gøre plads til den nye udstilling; The Chemistry of Life, som åbner 15. november. Det andet af den nye udstillings fire temaer kommer til at handle om den danske fysiolog Peter Ludvig […]

At last month’s conference, Jan-Eric Olsén talked about the tendency in contemporary medicine and society in general to constantly monitor our own health. Jan-Eric pointed to the fact that there is a fine line between monitoring and surveillance, and that patients should be aware of that before uncritically embracing these new technologies. Read Jan-Eric’s full […]

’The molecular in the museum’ var et af temaerne på dette års EAMHMS konference, som blev afholdt her på museet i september. Hvordan kan vi udstille små bitte molekylære strukturer, og hvilke metaforer bruger vi til at beskrive en molekylær forståelse af kroppen? Det var nogle af de emner der blev diskuteret i sessionen. Der […]

One of the sessions at last month’s conference on ‘Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums’ in Copenhagen focused on visual media in exhibitions. Ramunas Kondratas, formerly National Museum of American History (Smithsonian), presented the idea of using video footage to document biomedical machinery too large to collected or exhibited in the […]