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For et par uger siden udnævnte forfatteren Knud Romer Medicinsk Museion til sit yndlingsmuseum. Han begrunder det med, at det er noget helt ekstraordinært at se, hvis man bevæger sig inden for hos os her i Bredgade: Hvis jeg skulle vælge et perifert museum, som umiddelbart ikke er i folks bevidsthed, ville jeg vælge Medicinsk […]

Folk myldrer ind fra den stearinlysoplyste trappe. Klokken er 23.30 og besøgstallet har rundet de 1600. Medicin- og historiestuderende fortæller med sigende bevægelser om alt fra trepanering til førmoderne medicinopskrifter. Mos fra et kranium skulle kunne kurere det meste:   ”Kulturnatten er en stram nat, så jeg skal prøve at gøre det kort.” Vores samlingsleder Ion fortæller amputationens […]

I aften er der kulturnat over hele byen og også her på Medicinsk Museion. Ud over at man kan gå på nattevandring i det gamle kirurgiske akademi og vores udstillinger, vil der være en række aktiviteter: Man kan f.eks. få testet sin lungefunktion eller se udviklingen af proteser fra træben til robotarme. Man kan også for første […]

This session at the conference “Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums” in Copenhagen last month circled around the concept of the Renaissance Wunderkammer, and how we might use techniques of curiosity and wonder to engage people with scientific and historical objects. Joanna Ebenstein —who writes the blog Morbid Anatomy— talked about […]

De som er interesserede i videnskabsstudier inden for aldringsforskningsområdet kan blive inspireret ved at komme i Medicinsk Museions anatomiske teater, torsdag den 28. oktober kl. 14. Her vil Tiago Moreira (School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University) tale om “Ageing in Technological Democracies”. Bagefter diskussion og til sidst et glas livsforlængende rødvin. Abstract: Social gerontology has until recently […]

If you are interested in medical science studies, you might consider visiting Medical Museion on Thursday 28 October at 2PM.  Tiago Moreira (School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University) will speak about “Ageing in Technological Democracies”: Social gerontology has until recently been mainly concerned with the structural and cultural contexts through which age identities and practices are […]

Da vi afholdt konferencen ”Contemporary Medical Science and Technology as a Challenge to Museums” på Medicinsk Museion i september, havde jeg travlt med at filme alle oplæggene og de efterfølgende diskussioner. Resultater var 15 timers råmateriale. I stedet for at fortvivle ringede jeg til min ven Amalie Smith Sørensen, og efter to uger hvor vi […]

If you happen to pass through Copenhagen in the weekend, don’t miss the opportunity to visit Medical Museion on Friday night. We’re open 6-12pm during the Copenhagen Culture Night, with the following highlights:     1) From wooden leg to robotic arm: Together with the Amputation Group of the Danish Handicap Society we are focusing on amputation and prosthetics. […]

Når København fredag aften omdannes til et kæmpe kulturhus, er Medicinsk Museion naturligvis blandt de steder, der åbner dørene og byder inden for til en stemningsfyldt aften i bygningen, der oprindelig husede Det Kongelige Kirurgiske Akademi.       Aftenens program Kl. 18-23: Fra træben til robotarm I samarbejde med Dansk Handicap Forbunds Amputationskreds sætter […]

The implication of the theme — ‘Contemporary medicine and technology as a challenge to museums’ — for this year’s biannual EAMHMS conference in Copenhagen last month is that it is difficult to exhibit the molecular level of the recent medical understanding of the body. How can we display such molecular and other tiny structures? And what […]

I’ve totally forgotten to mention the fact that Danny Birchall, web editor at the Wellcome Collection in London, has written a very valuable and eminently readable personal resumé of the conference “Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums” in Copenhagen last month. Thanks for the good work, Danny!

During the European Association of Museums for the History of Medical Sciences‘s conference (on the theme of contemporary medicine and technology as a challenge to museums) held here at Medical Museion in mid-September, I was very busy video-recording all the presentations and the following discussions. The result was 15 hours of raw footage.  Instead of despairing, […]