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The lockdown has brought many challenges but one of its unexpected benefits has been the growth of digital conferences, lectures and events that allow us to tune in no matter where we are in the world. My favorite science comedy night in London, Science Showoff, even moved itself to the virtual world, and last week I took the opportunity to present my own comedy ‘set’ about my work with circadian scientists at CBMR.

As we approach the end of March, many countries around the world from Mongolia to Paraguay to Greenland are preparing to ‘spring forward’ and move the clocks forward an hour. Each year, Daylight Savings Time (DST) brings with it passionate debates about whether it should be scrapped or retained. And in 2019, the EU member states voted to stop the observance of DST from 2021 – making this (possibly) the last year that the seasonal time change will be observed in Denmark.

Det er sommer i København og trods den varme sol slentrer byens gæster rundt i Medicinsk Museions skyggefulde udstillingssale. Museet har til huse i gamle smukke bygninger, og dets rum og trappeopgange kan tage retningssansen fra enhver, så nysgerrighed og manglende orientering mødes her i en eventyrlig blanding. Det gælder for museumsgæsterne, såvel som for […]

On December 22nd 2004 Thomas published the first post on our blog, Biomedine in Display. I guess we have some celebrating to do! I wasn’t along for very beginning, but that doesn’t mean I can’t celebrate too. So here’s a little peek into what’s been going on in our part of the blogosphere in the past […]

At Medicinsk Museions samling består af mange forunderlige og mærkelige genstande burde der ikke herske tvivl om. (skulle man være i tvivl, er man mere end velkommen til at besøge Museions udstillinger) Men man kigger lige en ekstra gang, når man fjerner silkepapiret* fra en samlingskasse og opdager, at genstanden, man skulle hente, kigger tilbage på […]

In 2010, Thomas and I wrote a paper titled ’Do Things Talk?’, published in Susanne Lehmann-Brauns, Christian Sichau, Helmuth Trischler (eds.), The Exhibition as Product and Generator of Scholarship (the volume is available as a .pdf here). In the paper, we discussed the problems and pitfalls surrounding the still current ‘things that talk’ rhetoric. Our […]

This post was originally published on the official blog of the International Congress of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, held in Manchester 22-28 July, as an appetiser for the paper “Understanding social media in STEM museums: the lessons from establishing a bio-hacking laboratory” that I co-authored with Karin Tybjerg and which Karin presented in the […]

Professor of Medical Humanities at Durham University Jane Macnaughton reports her experiences with the workshop It’s Not What You Think at Medical Museion on 8-9 March 2013 (excerpt): “Adam and Louise had attracted a very diverse group of scholars, museum practitioners, artists, philosophers, science communicators – and one clinician (that was me) (…) One of […]

Suddenly, last weekend, the museum blogosphere was surprised by a new museum website, MuseTrain, which has already given rise to lots of ripples on Twitter. Behind the site, with the cryptohumble subtitle “We have some suggestions…”, is a so far anonymous group of people, who have “been working in and around all kinds of museums (art, science […]

As a bit of a brain-fanatic, I was very excited to attend the opening of the new Wellcome Collection exhibition in London, Brains: The Mind as Matter, at the end of March. I was particularly keen to see how the stated aim to focus on the brain as object  would play out: Brains takes the […]