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The so-called Ingelfinger rule inhibits open science, as biomedical researchers are prohibited from sharing and discussing their results before they are published in mainstream journals. If they do, the journals might refuse to publish them. However, in other areas of science, this is not an issue. The open access repository, arXiv, is used by researchers […]

I midten af oktober slog Medicinsk Museion, efter mange måneders forberedelser dørene op for den nye udstilling: BALANCE OG STOFSKIFTE. Udstillingen er placeret i de omtalte to nyrestaurerede rum på museet. Når de besøgende træder over dørtærsklen til udstillingen for at lade sig opsluge af udstillingens metaboliske emner, fortalt i et fortidigt og nutidigt regi […]

I started writing some comments on Thomas’ stimulating and interesting post on why museums are so apolitical, but it turned into something lengthier so I thought I would post it separately. There is a deep and interesting fissure in how some of the questions in the post are articulated. The division that is mapped out […]

Genoplev højdepunkterne fra Kulturnatten 2011 på 1½ minut, eller se hvad du gik glip af: Se klip fra den nye udstilling Balance og Stofskifte, Lungeforeningens lungetest, forskerstreger, humane præparater og meget mere! httpv://youtu.be/_7X4Chl0w-I

I’ve just wiped the whiteboard in the lunch room — but only after having jotted down what we wrote during an intensive brainstorm session some time ago, triggered by the recent ICOM-konference on museums and politics in Copenhagen. Why are museums often so apolitical? Why are medical museums even more so? Why is our museum pronouncedly devoid of any views on the […]

Philosopher Ian Bogost recently posted this lecture that he gave a month ago at the Third Object Oriented Ontology symposium held at The New School in New York. In the talk, he discusses the photographer Garry Winogrand, who is famous as a street photographer, documenting life in mid-20th century America through hundreds of thousands of […]

V2_ , the Institute for the Unstable Media is, in their own words an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). V2_’s activities include organizing presentations, exhibitions and workshops, research and development of artworks in its own media lab, distributing artworks through its Agency, publishing in the field of art and […]

[flickr id=”6253251891″ thumbnail=”square” overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”right”] [flickr id=”6253781426″ thumbnail=”square” overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”right”] [flickr id=”6253251771″ thumbnail=”square” overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”right”]De voldsomme vandmængder der ramte museet d.2. juli 2010, bragte ikke kun frustration og ærgrelse med sig. Fine ting er kommet frem i dagens lys, bl.a. en samling af sort/hvid- og røntgenbilleder fra Rigshospitalets Børneafdeling […]

[flickr id=”6243417182″ thumbnail=”small” overlay=”true” size=”large” group=”” align=”right”] Det er næsten blevet en tradition at der på Kulturnatten bliver taget nogle præparater af menneskelige dele frem fra magasinerne på Medicinsk Museion. I år har konservator Charlotte Vikkelsø Hansen valgt nogle præparater hun synes er særligt interessante. Blandt dem er skelettet af et barn med hydrocephalus. Det […]

[flickr id=”6233951521″ thumbnail=”medium” overlay=”true” size=”medium_640″ group=”” align=”right”]Forberedelserne til Medicinsk Museions nye udstilling Balance og Stofskifte der åbner til Kulturnatten har længe været i fuld gang. Der indgår flere mennskelige organer i udstillingen, bl.a en hjerne og et hjerte. Organerne har været opbevaret i firkantede glas. Det er en helt almindeligt måde at opbevare menneskelige organer […]

I’m live-tweeting from the Artefacts meeting in Leiden: see here. See meeting programme here. See abstracts here. You can also follow #medicalmuseion and #af11.

In The Sovereignty of Good (1970) Iris Murdoch suggested that intellectual discipline is moral discipline. She used the learning of new languages as an example: If I am learning, for instance, Russian, I am confronted by an authoritative structure which commands my respect. The task is difficult and the goal is distant and perhaps never entirely attainable. My […]