Medicinsk Museion

The life and behaviour of the infectious agent are often at the centre of scientific research on infectious disease. Currently, the structure and cycle of SARS-CoV2, the covid-19 virus, is being studied by a host of scientists attempting to locate possible sites of interference and manipulation. To study this, we must capture the agent.

The epidemic chaos, of the body, of other bodies, and of national borders, reminds us – among other things – that we are mortal, perishable. We are material bodies that are subject to the whims of nature and rely on very real structures to carry out our lives.

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Medical Museion and Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, since October 2019. The project I will be working on examines motivations to and contexts for dietary orientations of people who, for different reasons, have chosen to adhere to a diet specifically targeting the gut microbiome.

We are celebrating today at Museion! We have received 4,6 million DKK from the Novo Nordisk Foundation for the project Microcosmos/Macrocosmos, from the foundations thematic program for innovative science communication and debate on science and technology. The project is grounded in a collaboration between Medical Museion, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research (CBMR), and Kunsthal Charlottenborg.

The facades of Medical Museum will be renovated from the end of July 2019, and approximately half a year ahead.

For Culture Night 2016 at Medical Museion we made a poetic survey in collaboration with the author Merete Helle Pryds, which questioned peoples understandings of the relationship between feelings, body, food and digestion. As a part of the survey we asked people to draw where in the body they experience their emotions. We received 435 […]

For Culture Night 2016 at Medical Museion we made a poetic survey in collaboration with the author Merete Helle Pryds, which questioned peoples understandings of the relationship between feelings, body, food and digestion. As a part of the survey we asked people to draw where in the body they experience their emotions. We received 435 […]

Medical Museion has just been announced the winner of The Bikuben Foundation’s Exhibition Prize Vision 2015. In competition with 45 Danish museums we have been awarded with 3 million Danish kroner to develop and execute the exhibition project ‘Mind the Gut’ that combines art, heritage and the latest biomedical research on the importance of the […]