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På Medicinsk Museion arbejder vi målrettet med at skabe levende og udfordrende møder med den medicinske kultur og forskningen i sygdom og sundhed. Som en central del af dette arbejde udforsker vi sammen med publikum, hvordan brugen af innovative eventformater kan gøre forskningen nærværende, relevant og inspirerende. Vores events inviterer til dialog og diskussion, skaber […]

Åbningstale ved ferniseringen af Metascent – en udstilling om menneskets duft d. 14. maj 2014. Mennesker dufter i dobbelt forstand. De dufter til og af noget. På den lille eksperimentelle udstilling Metascent, som netop er åbnet på Medicinsk Museion, kan man få lov at dufte til og dvæle ved menneskets duft i flere afskygninger. Duftsymptomer fra den […]

Hvordan dufter en skolelærer, en hundelufter eller en tømrer? Kropsdufte er lige så forskellige som vi mennesker – ikke to er ens. Men oplevelsen af dufte er ligeså unik. Ikke to mennesker oplever duft på samme måde.

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 […]

As the It’s Not What You Think: Communicating Medical Materialities workshop in March, we experimented with different formats – from quick-fire intro presentations to break the interdisciplinary ice, to a hands-on object investigation session. In the object session (video here), participants were sorted into four groups, and entered an empty exhibition room to find one table per group, […]

One of our PhD-students, Anette Stenslund, is currently visiting researcher at the Centre for Sensory Studies, Concordia University, Montreal. Under the heading “Ambient plasticity: aesthetics of the hospital”, she investigates everyday aesthetics and is currently exploring the atmosphere of the hospital by emphasizing smell impressions: To most people, the hospital smell is unpleasant and uncomfortable: Why […]

Last Thursday we held the first event in our new series Body | Medicine | Object. The inaugural event was entitled Making balance bodies: From leeches to pills (read more in Danish here), and explored different understandings of what it means to be healthy and in balance, and how im-balance is treated. Some 65 people […]

At an internal workshop here at Medical Museion, we recently discussed the problematic aspects of distributing objects from the collection on the web. The web surely poses a great opportunity for museums to get stuff out there and thereby to reach a broader audience – hopefully then inspiring them to an actual museum visit – […]

Careful readers of this blog may remember we opened an Investigation Room here at Medical Museion in connection with the Copenhagen Culture Night in October 2010. The room originated on the initiative of postdoc Lucy Lyons as a public venue for her project on drawing as a method to communicate experience with museum objects: Medical Museion’s Investigation Room […]

Some of us here at Medical Museion have been talking about submitting a proposal for a workshop at the annual Swedish STS meeting, which Nina Wormbs, Sabine Höhler and Adam Netzén at the Division of History of Science and Technology are organising at the Royal College of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm 2-4 May next year. The theme for […]

My idea for organizing the Sensuous Object workshop began over a year ago. It originated with my interest in (re) placing the object as central and focusing on the sensuous object, i.e. how we sense objects, come to know them, are affected by them and their presence, how objects can become outcomes of research, how […]

I would like to announce the programme for the forthcoming workshop on 29th and 30th September. I have been overwhelmed by the amount of interest this workshop has generated as it grew from an idea to have a small informal seminar where the object is understood sensuously and placed as central to research, to become a […]