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Last Friday, Medical Museion participated, as usual, in the annual Copenhagen Night of Culture. We had 1326 visitors — a little fewer than last year — passing through the entrance door to view our permanent and temporary exhibitions. The decrease in the number of visitors is not a bad thing though — because it gave us better time to speak with them as […]

The four-year ‘Biomedicine on Display’ project, funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation, is closing down this autumn. Most of the junior staff have left for other jobs. The external steering group has approved the evaluation report (with acclamation). Here’s an updated publication list from the project.

In continuation of last week’s post about protein art — here is a (somewhat dated) YouTube-movie about the making of such a beast: [biomed]LqsQYVFAgPo[/biomed] It’s an interview with German physicist-turned-artist Julian Voss-Andreae working on his antibody sculpture ‘Angel of the West’, now placed in front of the Scripps Research Institute in Florida. Voss-Andreae comments in […]

Don’t forget to see ‘Assembling Bodies: Art, Science & Imagination’, the major interdisciplinary exhibition at the University of Cambridge’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, when you are in town (45 mins from Stansted airport). The exhibition explores some of the different ways that bodies are imagined, understood and transformed in the arts, social and bio-medical sciences. […]

In the last ten years or so, in the wake of the renewed interest in protein research and proteomics after genomics, we have seen more and more artists making protein sculptures. See, for example, Graphic Thought Facility’s neon protein artwork, or Colin Rennies glass sculpture of ATP synthase, or Julian Voss-Andreae’s wood and steel sculpures of proteins, just to mention a few. Here’s […]

My stomach rumbled with excitement when I read the call for papers for a workshop titled ‘History, Digestion and Society: New Perspectives’ at University College Dublin, 30 April – 1 May 2010, organised at the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland. As the organisers (Ian Miller and Mike Liffey) point out, diet and digestion […]

If the colour of medicine is green — what is (are) the colour(s) of the biomedical laboratory? And how have these colours shifted over time? I’m asking, because David just sent this image of a “gorgeous MacBeth densitometer” (cat.nr. 1998.0174) telling me he’s now looking around for “space age blue” in his museum’s collection. I guess the […]

Later today, the art exhibition SK-INTERFACES — originally displayed in Liverpool in 2008 (see earlier post here) — opens in “extended continuation” form (what others would call perpetual beta 🙂 at Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg. The opening event features Kira O’Reilly (inthewrongplaceness), Yann Marussich (Bleu Remix), Paul Vanouse (Relative Velocity Inscription Device) and Jun Takita […]

The other day photographer Mads Ljungdahl visited us — and took this romantic picture in one of our reconstructed early 20th century dentist’s clinics (it’s the building of the High Court of Eastern Denmark in the background): (credit: Mads Ljungdahl, http://www.madsljungdahl.dk and  http://www.artreview.com/profile/Mads_Lj)

A couple of months ago I advertised David Pantalony’s forthcoming article on the colour green in medicine. Just want to add that it was published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal last week (Sept 15, pp. 402-03). Read the full online text here.

A couple of weeks ago, I noted with some innocent pleasure that this humble blog was listed among the 100 Best Blogs and Websites for Innovative Academics. Pretty nice, I thought! Then it turned out we’re also selected for the 100 Best Curator and Museum Blogs. Pretty nice too, I thought! A couple of days ago, a service called The Daily Reviewer told us […]

The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is announcing a job as heritage manager. The succesful incumbent shall lead a team of professional staff and will be responsible for the operation and development of the College’s museums and library including collections, exhibitions, archives, members’ services and the College’s historic buildings. Closing date is 2 October. More info […]