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Bring your own human. This was the instruction (and name) for our workshop in September 2019. It is a simple, short and sophisticated instruction. As soon as you start thinking more about what to do, several questions quickly loom over you. Are you going to bring a fully-grown human or a human that just started walking on its own? Will you bring an entire human or maybe just a microbe on its pinky finger? Maybe you would rather like to convey a feeling of being human or let your audience become aware of the fact that they are humans experiencing right now.

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.

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. The project […]

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.

If I told you that I studied circadian rhythms, it probably wouldn’t mean very much to you. What about ‘chronobiology’? The biology part is easy enough, the study of living things, but what about ‘chrono’? These scientific names obscure a simple fact about being human that most of us take for granted – that our daily lives are governed by time.

The journal Performance Studies has a call out for a special issue on ‘Microperformativity’, edited by Jens Hauser, international curator and researcher at Museion, and Lucie Strecker. The deadline for one-page proposals is September 2nd. CLICK HERE FOR THE CALL What is microperformativity? In simple terms, it invites us to consider what performance means when […]

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

Are our thoughts and feelings really our own? Take part in a creative writing course at Medical Museion to explore how the written word might engage with ‘gut thinking’. Recent research into the human microbiome suggests that the trillions of microbes that inhabit our guts are not just crucial for digestion – they may also […]

Det er almindelig praksis på mange kulturhistoriske museer at tømme genstande for originalt indhold efter devisen, at det kan være skadeligt for genstanden eller for mennesker. På Medicinsk Museion har vi dog en anden tilgang. Mange af de gamle apotekerkrukker og -glas har rester af det middel, som oprindeligt blev opbevaret i disse. Vi anser disse rester for en del af genstandens historie og derfor en del af dens autenticitet. 

‘Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are’. o proclaims Brillat-Savarin famously in 1825.

The extremely versatile artist Thomas Feuerstein is currently exhibiting his art installations at Museion. An exhibition where the color green plays a dominant role. Back in June, Thomas was in Copenhagen for the SLSAeu Green conference and gave a talk about Green Unicorns – and how he ended up marrying a plant. You can see […]

A week into my most recent spell as director at Medical Museion and it is clear that May 2018 will be a hectic month – mixing new public exhibitions, a conference on an unusual approaches to research and a major new collections project.