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Så blev det tid til at vise de flot svungne og farverige tematekster til vores kommende udstilling The Chemistry of Life frem på opslagstavlen. Det første tema, som er holdt i grønne nuancer, kommer til at handle om den italienske fysiolog Santorio Santorio, der i 1600tallet foretog de første undersøgelser af stofskiftet hos mennesker. I […]

In 2000, a group of university museum people around Europe founded UNIVERSEUM as a loose network for the preservation of the European academic heritage. So far it’s had an informal structure, which has been part of the charm of the organisation. But at the 2010 annual meeting in Uppsala last June, it was decided to organise it more formally with statutes, membership, […]

I sidste uge udkom Jesper Vaszy Kraghs bog “Det hvide snit. Psykokirurgi og dansk psykiatri 1922-1983”, der bygger på den ph.d. afhandling, som han skrev her på Medicinsk Museion. Der har allerede været en del medieomtale af bogens pointer. Bl.a. trak historien om, at udviklingshæmmede børn fik det hvide snit, overskrifter – også ude i […]

“How do we display artifacts which are neither sexy nor beautiful?” asked Yves Thomas in his presentation at last month’s conference in Copenhagen. His own answer to the question was to bring a human dimension to these objects by adding virtual elements such as interviews with the researchers or video clips of the object in […]

[For et par uger siden bragte vi biolog og naturfilosof Claus Emmeches indlæg ved lanceringen af Lone Frank’s Mit smukke genom her på Medicinsk Museion. Her er genomforsker Oluf Borbye Pedersens kommentar til bogen] Lone Frank og dit smukke genom. Du skal ha højsangen! De langstilkede verbale roser skal du ha fordi du er modig […]

Most medical museums live in the safe past. Exhibitions rooms are filled with beautiful 19th and 20th century medical instruments and scary pathological body parts in formaldehyde. The present and the future body and its instruments are hardly visible in medical museums. How, for example, shall medical museums handle the fusion of bodies and instruments made […]

Jesper‘s bog, Det hvide snit: Psykokirurgi og dansk psykiatri 1922-1983 (Syddansk Universitetsforlag) udkommer i morgen. Der er noget forskellige forhåndsomtale af bogen i dag her og her. Der var også en artikel i Information i går.

Another theme at the “Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums”-conference was ‘investigating museum visitors’. Can visitors’ experiences help us make our museums better? Should an exhibition be guided by what the curator is passionate about or by what she thinks the visitor might find interesting? Or should we simply ask visitors to […]

Sekretæren for Dansk Medicinsk-Historisk Selskab, Søren Bak-Jensen, påminder om at fristen for indsendelse af opgaver til Studenterprisen 2010 er 31. december. Prisen er på kr. 10.000 og kan uddeles til alle typer studenteropgaver, undtagen specialer, der beskæftiger sig med et medicinhistorisk emne og som er blevet bedømt i 2010.   Derfor, hvis du har været […]

At the conference “Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums” in Copenhagen last month, one of the very hot topics was art. What contributions can art make to exhibitions of contemporary medicine? [biomed]KlilrII37zY[/biomed] The first speaker of this session, Yin Chung Au from Taipei, pointed out that we should move away from […]

Luke Jerram has just finished a new glass sculpture of a Plasmodium falciparum merozoite just after it has entered a red blood cell. The artwork is to be auctioned in New York to raise money for the charity Malaria No More. See the sculpture in Jerram’s microbiology artworks collection and a YouTube clip of the newly completed sculpture. (From the Luke Jerram Newsletter, […]

Siden jeg startede her på Medicinsk Museion i august, har jeg delt kontor med postdoc Adam Bencard. For et par uger siden sad han og kiggede i en gammel læderindbunden bog med titlen ”Grundrids af det menneskelige legemes physiologie” af G. Valentin fra 1857. Han viste mig en af siderne:  Billedet forestiller, som man kan […]