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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 […]

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 […]

Some of us from Medical Museion are going to try a new session format at this year’s Swedish STS-meeting, which takes place at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, 2-4 May. Titled “In Medias Res: The aesthetics of scientific, technological and medical things”, the idea of the session is to present some of […]

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 […]

Our own Lucy Lyons and Anette Stenslund are organising a two-day workshop titled ‘The Sensuous Object’ here at Medical Museion, September 29-30. ‘The Sensuous Object’ is an interdisciplinary, participatory workshop concerned with ways we actually engage with objects and aimed at researchers in all disciplines interested in the materiality of actual artefacts and ways of […]

Ugh! Last week I visited New York. What really spoke to my senses and touched my emotions in a provocative and morbid way was a toe-curling exhibition of works by the American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988) at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art. To be honest the works on display managed to freak me out […]