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Juletid er nostalgi, tradition og dukker! Også i år lancerer Medicinsk Museion en julekalender til alle, der har lidt svært ved at vente til det bliver juleaften. Vi har valgt at videreføre en tradition – både inden for den danske julekalender og i udstillingernes verden – og er stolte af at kunne præsentere: Dukkerne på museet.

At Medical Museion we’re currently working on the project From Kitchen Sink to Museum: Doing and Debating Synthetic Biology, in collaboration with biohackers from the Copenhagen ‘maker space’ Labitat. We have invited the biohackers to use the museum space as their space – as a laboratory where workshops and events will take place, thereby communicating […]

There are still a few spaces left for ‘It’s Not What You Think – Communicating Medical Materialities – an interdisciplinary workshop at Medical Museion, March 8th-9th 2013. Those interested are invited to submit up to 300 words, one page of text/image, a short piece of audio or video, or a small package communicating why they would […]

I can’t think of a more appropriate place than Twitter to come across an article about the use of social media to disseminate public health information. I regularly do a Twitter search for ‘public health social media’ and very often come across new interesting initiatives, reports, meetings etc. Today’s finding was the article Putting the Public […]

I sidste uge blev verden beriget med hele tre publikationer om grisegenomer. Én i Nature, én i PNAS og en i Gigascience. Helt urelateret befandt jeg mig til et SHARE symposium, som handlede om grise – og så også lidt andre dyr. Nærmere bestemt “next-generation” dyremodeller. Og der blev skam også talt om grise. Især den […]

Steven Lubar — director of the public humanities programme at Brown University and keen observer of things museological — has just drawn his Twitter followers’ attention to a “nice” blog post on the problems of collecting contemporary artefacts written by National Museum of American History curator Carlene Stephens. Stephens’ blog post revolves around Stanley (a driver-less vehicle that won a historic […]

Wow, I can’t believe time has passed so quickly. Next to me is a pile of exam papers completed by the students of the graduate course in Public Health Science Communication at the University of Copenhagen. I feel like I just had the first introduction module, but yet I am almost done reading all these papers. Until […]

In October 2012 Medical Museion opened the new exhibition ‘Obesity – what’s the problem’. After a long period of development and production the exhibition is now finally being used by a real live audience, and we – the exhibition team – are being confronted with their reactions. One of the more surprising ones being the […]

Caterina Albano is one of those interesting combined scholars-curators, who works on topics that any medical museum director would love to include in the portfolio. Having a PhD background in Renaissance Studies, Albano focuses her research and curatorial work on projects that relate bioscience, art and culture and explore topics like the unconscious, the history […]

Denne voksskulptur i naturlig størrelse er på en gang et portræt af en fin herre fra slutningen af 1700-tallet og en anatomisk model beregnet på undervisning af vordende læger, altså en vellykket kombination af kunst og videnskab som fremhæver det humanistiske element i lægekunsten.

Sidste nummer af Ugeskrift for Læger indholder et journalistisk referat af det seminar om sociale medier og medicin, som vi har fortalt om tidligere. Der var indledninger ved Richard Smith, tidligere chefredaktør for British Medical Journal (BMJ), som er aktiv fortaler for ”open access publishing” og meget aktiv bruger af sociale medier (www.blogs.bmj.com), og læge Bertalan Meskó, der er […]

On next Thursday, 15 November, museum and material culture scholar Sandra Dudley will speak about “The possibilities of things: an object-centred view and its implications for museums” at Medical Museion’s MUSE-seminar (abstract below). Sandra Dudley has a background in anthropology, she has been, among other places, at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford and the Smithsonian in Washington DC, before coming […]