Thomas Söderqvist As Lucy wrote earlier today, Copenhagen was hit by 6 inches (150 mm) of rain last Saturday night. The basement level in all Medical Museion’s buildings were flooded by surface and sewage water — the highest water level inside was 36 inches (almost one meter)!
All available staff has been working hard during the last three days to save artefacts from the basement storage rooms, especially our big collection of human remains from medieval plague leprosy cemeteries.
Here’s a short video shot by our in-house movie-maker, Astrid Mo, titled “After the Cloudburst” (Danish: “Efter skybruddet”) with background music by Kevin McLeod:
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It perfectly catches our mood at the moment — my ‘favourite’ part is the water-filled skull at the end.
For more movies about the cloudburst over Copenhagen, see e.g. here.
Wet to the bone — saving Medical Museion’s collections after the Copenhagen cloudburst
As Lucy wrote earlier today, Copenhagen was hit by 6 inches (150 mm) of rain last Saturday night. The basement level in all Medical Museion’s buildings were flooded by surface and sewage water — the highest water level inside was 36 inches (almost one meter)! All available staff has been working hard during the last three days to save artefacts from […]
