Museion concept

Her er programmet for afholdte Museion-seminarer fra december 2005 og frem. Seminarer inkl. evt. abstracts og materiale flyttes til denne side, når de er afholdt. For abstracts, klik på side 2 (for tidligere seminarprogrammer, se her)

We tend to think of recent biomedical artefacts as more or less spectacular high-tech things, like gene sequencers, PET scanners, PCR machines or knock-out mice. But many vital artefacts in the biomedical laboratory or medical clinic are mundane things — like plastic gloves, ink markers and centrifuge tubes. They may not be so fancy, but […]

Johannes Grave, postdoc at NFS Bildkritik / NCCR Iconic Criticism, Universität Basel (and who visited us with the Wandering Seminar in mid-May; he is sitting a step below Susanne on this pic) has sent us the following comment and photos of three objects which caught his attention when he inspected our collections and those in […]

The Max Planck Research Network “History of Scientific Objects” Wandering Seminar has just finished a week’s intensive course at the Medical Museion. The group — 16 pre- and postdocs from a number of European universities (plus Harvard) — came to Copenhagen after a week at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. We (i.e., Anders, Camilla, Hanne, […]

There are still a few vacant seats around the table at the Copenhagen station of the Max Planck Research Network’s European Wandering Seminar, “History of Scientific Objects”, 8 – 12 May. Remaining seats will be distributed according the first-come-first-seated principle. PhD students will have priority. Participation fee is 300 DKK per day (including coffee and […]

Here’s the manuscript to my talk at Residència d’Investigadors in Barcelona Thursday 30 March. It’s a modified version of an article that’s being published in a special issue about university museums in Opuscula Musealia later this year. There are no notes in this blog version. If you prefer a Catalan version (!), you can get […]

Historikere ved Princeton University har i arkiverne fundet det endelige bevis på at allerede Einstein var en stærk tilhænger af Museion-konceptet:

Here’s the abstract and a link to the full paper “Who’s afraid of the recent biomedical heritage?” from the UMAC conference in Uppsala, September 2005.

Ugen mellem jul og nytår er for mig altid en meditativ uge — med mere eller mindre eksistentielle ransagelser og kvababbelser (“hvad gjorde jeg nu forkert i året der gik”, “jeg ønsker jeg havde …”, “shit også …”) og indimellem glæde over, at der trods alt var noget, der ikke gik helt galt. Idag, da […]

Max Planck Research Network on History of Scientific Objects Seminar comes to Copenhagen 9 -11 May, 2006. Here’s the announcement for the whole European tour: With its Wandering Seminar on Scientific Objects the Max Planck Research Network establishes a new form of international cooperation. The principal aim of this project is to provide junior scholars […]

It interesting to follow different attempts to create virtual medical history archives and exhibitions on the web, even if they don’t focus on recent biomedicine/biotechnology. One can alway learn something new; in this case — which many of you probably already know of — the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science’s (Berlin) on-line project, The […]

I sometimes wonder how the activities of this department are perceived by the rest of the medical faculty? — a thought triggered by the abstract of Robert Doubleday‘s talk (to be held tomorrow at noon