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Så er der kun en uge til den nye udstilling The Chemistry of Life åbner, og i Panumbygningens vandrehal har der hele ugen hersket et muntert virvar. Sammen med Adam og Nanna, som er hhv. hovedkurator og konservator på udstillingen, har arkitekt Mikael Thorsted og teknikere fra Exponent Stougaard A/S myldret rundt og installeret lys, […]

The challenge of how to display fetal bodies was attacked from very different angles at the September conference. Morten Skydsgaard introduced us to the exhibition The incomplete child, in which the idea was to show the deviant body in its own right. He emphasized the importance, especially in controversial displays, of giving the visitors time […]

At the conference in September, Kim Sawchuk talked about why, in this micro-molecular age, we are still hanging on to the fantasy of travelling inside the anatomical spaces of our own bodies. Kim admits that she herself has become what she calls a ‘biotourist’, a person who visits medical museums in order to experience the […]

Ugh! Last week I visited New York. What really spoke to my senses and touched my emotions in a provocative and morbid way was a toe-curling exhibition of works by the American artist Paul Thek (1933-1988) at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art. To be honest the works on display managed to freak me out […]

Roger Cooter and Claudia Stein’s presentation at the conference on “Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums” in Copenhagen last month was about the politics of knowledge production, with medical museums as a case study. One of Roger’s arguments was that the museums, by placing their historical objects in new, global contexts, […]

I disse uger er vores konservator Nanna og hendes hjælpere i fuld gang med nedtagningen af Healthy Ageing-udstillingen i Panumbygningens vandrehal for at gøre plads til den nye udstilling; The Chemistry of Life, som åbner 15. november. Det andet af den nye udstillings fire temaer kommer til at handle om den danske fysiolog Peter Ludvig […]

At last month’s conference, Jan-Eric Olsén talked about the tendency in contemporary medicine and society in general to constantly monitor our own health. Jan-Eric pointed to the fact that there is a fine line between monitoring and surveillance, and that patients should be aware of that before uncritically embracing these new technologies. Read Jan-Eric’s full […]

’The molecular in the museum’ var et af temaerne på dette års EAMHMS konference, som blev afholdt her på museet i september. Hvordan kan vi udstille små bitte molekylære strukturer, og hvilke metaforer bruger vi til at beskrive en molekylær forståelse af kroppen? Det var nogle af de emner der blev diskuteret i sessionen. Der […]

One of the sessions at last month’s conference on ‘Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge to museums’ in Copenhagen focused on visual media in exhibitions. Ramunas Kondratas, formerly National Museum of American History (Smithsonian), presented the idea of using video footage to document biomedical machinery too large to collected or exhibited in the […]

Så blev det tid til at vise de flot svungne og farverige tematekster til vores kommende udstilling The Chemistry of Life frem på opslagstavlen. Det første tema, som er holdt i grønne nuancer, kommer til at handle om den italienske fysiolog Santorio Santorio, der i 1600tallet foretog de første undersøgelser af stofskiftet hos mennesker. I […]

“How do we display artifacts which are neither sexy nor beautiful?” asked Yves Thomas in his presentation at last month’s conference in Copenhagen. His own answer to the question was to bring a human dimension to these objects by adding virtual elements such as interviews with the researchers or video clips of the object in […]

[For et par uger siden bragte vi biolog og naturfilosof Claus Emmeches indlæg ved lanceringen af Lone Frank’s Mit smukke genom her på Medicinsk Museion. Her er genomforsker Oluf Borbye Pedersens kommentar til bogen] Lone Frank og dit smukke genom. Du skal ha højsangen! De langstilkede verbale roser skal du ha fordi du er modig […]