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Many of the objects held by museums of science and medicine are significant because they have been used in the production of knowledge and scientific enquiry. This blog post discusses how we might display such objects in ways that draw on their potential to generate scientific knowledge as well as their cultural history and materiality. […]

On the 23rd of August 2015, Mind the Gut curator Louise Whiteley participated in the symposium “Considering Exhibitions”, which focused on interdisciplinarity in relation to exhibitions. The talk by Louise Whiteley reveals some of the first ideas and visions for the exhibition. Mind the Gut will invite artists, humanistic researchers, scientists and curators to work together from […]

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 […]

As part of her Velux professorship in Copenhagen in September and October 2014, Professor Annemarie Mol will be offering a series of master classes on ‘Material semiotic explorations’ in conjunction with the University of Copenhagen’s Center for Health and Society (Center for Sundhed og Samfund – CSS). Below is information on the master classes and how […]

Visions of mimicking, synthesising, or designing life forms have an ancient pedigree, bouncing back and forth between the occult, the philosophical, and the scientific. Artists working with the tools of science and technology have also played a key role in shaping and interrogating imaginations of creation – and in revealing the way that tools shape the […]

This week Medical Museion is the venue for an international workshop on quantitative studies of major historic epidemic diseases. The workshop is organised within the framwork of the RAPIDD program (Research and Policy for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Dept. Homeland Security, hosted at Fogarty NIH and Princeton University).

When creating the concept for the exhibition The Body Collected, I investigated the use of human tissue in medicine from 19th century pathological museums to today’s biobanks containing small samples of frozen tissue. On the surface the museum and the biobank are very different kinds of places. But on closer inspection? We are easily led […]

The exhibition The Body Collected  displays the heart blood of the medical museum – the anatomical and pathological specimens – as part of a longer history on the uses of human material in medicine leading up the biopsies and blood samples in biobanks. The main exhibition principle is simple, instantly graspable and captures essential features of […]

Being a university museum, Medical Museion combines museum practice with research. But we don’t just conduct research on the specific content of our collections and exhibitions, we also engage in research projects on science communication and exhibition media. That is, research on how we interpret and communicate our objects through exhibition media, events, etc. In […]

We’re looking for students who want to be part in a unique performance-experiment on the 28th of May and a preparatory workshop on the 20th of May. There are ten times as many microbial cells as human cells in our bodies. We are populated by bacteria, and they influence us on many levels – research is connecting […]

Christmas is nostalgia and tradition! This year Medical Museion launches an advent calendar for anyone who has a hard time waiting for Christmas Eve. It combines two traditions: the use of puppets in Danish television advent calendars and the use of mannequins in museum exhibitions. We are proud to present: Mannequins at the museum. Using […]

We have had visitors from UK a couple of weeks ago: Susie Freeman and Liz Lee from the British artist group Pharmacopoeia were here to learn to know Medical Museion and vice versa. Pharmacopoeia is probably best known for their work “Cradle to Grave” which is a part of the “Living and Dying” installation at […]