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Yesterday, David Pantalony from University of Ottawa and the Canada Science and Technology Museum gave a talk in Medical Museion’s MUSE seminar series titled ‘Examine first, ask what it is later: The multiple interpretations of 20th century scientific artifacts’. David’s presentation gave rise to an intense discussion and an interesting stream of twitter-comments that are eternalised on Storify […]

Aktivitetsniveauet er højt på det lille museum i Bredgade. I skrivende stund er en delegation på fem af vores forskere på PCST 2012 konferencen i Firenze, mens mange af os herhjemme er i gang med at lægge sidste hånd på den udstilling, som vi åbner i næste uge. I 2010-11 var den engelske kunstner Lucy Lyons tilknyttet Medicinsk Museion som postdoc under Center for Sund Aldring, og det er resultaterne af hendes arbejde, der nu skal vises frem for publikum.

I forbindelse med Medicinsk Museions kommende udstilling, hvor der bl.a. vil blive kastet et blik på fedmekirurgien, planlægger vi at udstille eksempler på det apparatur man historisk set har benyttet i forbindelse med kirurgiske operationer: Anæstesiapparater, respiratorer og en hjerte-lunge maskine. Disse apparater vil blive placeret i en udstillingsinstallation der retter fokus mod kirurgiens maskinelle […]

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 […]

The title of this conference, organised by Petra Lange-Berndt and Mechthild Fend in the AHRC Research Network “The Culture of Preservation” (Activating Stilled Lives: The Aesthetics and Politics of Specimens on Display) is alluring. The meeting will address “the challenges institutions face when dealing with formerly living entities and consider the aesthetics and politics of […]

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 – […]

I first got hooked on using Twitter in- and outside conference rooms when I attended last year’s Artefacts meeting at the Boerhaave Museum in Leiden. Hopefully the award-winning and refurbished National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh also has an acceptable wifi connection when hosting this year’s meeting, 7-9 October. This year’s meeting is thematically focused on scientific and technological museum artefacts against the backdrop of the notion […]

Roland Wittje participated in the Medical Museion MUSE seminar with a paper born out of his annoyance at an observed change in the role of the curator. He described winds of change in the museum world. A change away from the traditional curator with close and specific knowledge of the objects and collections in their […]