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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.

Submit your abstracts by December 17th for the annual meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSAEu) in Copenhagen in June 2018, with the theme of GREEN (and the un-green…): http://green-slsa2018.ku.dk/ ‘Green’ is one of the most pervasive tropes of our time, and has been applied to domains ranging from environmentalism or politics […]

In case you missed our creative director Ken Arnold’s Inaugural lecture the 4th september 2017:  

Un-Greening Green – Materials – Metaphors – Media – Misunderstandings.

What’s bugging the gut in OCD? A new review that came out yesterday in the journal Depression and Anxiety explores yet another link between a psychiatric disorders and the gut bacteria. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by “recurrent intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and ritualistic behaviors aimed at reducing distress (compulsions)”. Although an relatively unexplored area, […]

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 […]

Here’s my talk at the night of discussion titled ‘What the hell is the point of museums?’ held at Medical Museion November 3, 2016

In last issue of the journal Isis (vol 107, nr 2, 2016), twelwe scholars discuss different aspects of The History Manifesto from the vantage point of the history of science, technology and medicine.

It’s been an interesting week for ‘Heirloom‘ – the artwork we’re currently exhibiting that grows cell portraits of the artist’s daughters in bioreactor tanks, and then preserves them for display. The cells have grown so successfully that last week the tubes became blocked, causing increased pressure and a leak. Then on Monday we discovered a […]

In Gina Czarnecki and John Hunt’s living artwork Heirloom, cells grow almost imperceptibly. Keeping them alive and healthy is, however, far from easy. Last month we hosted two interactive workshops entitled Cellcraft to allow curators, artists, and others interested a glimpse into the world of growing and caring for cells. Under the guidance of Dr. Rod Dillon we were […]