Enjoy! An evening on the body, food and health
Cultural Night is created in connection with the museum’s new exhibition Margarine – an exhibition about bloodstreams and everyday life. This year the audience can experience a delicate program exploring the connection between food and the body. Listen to talks on food history and health, participate in creating a special clay artwork about blood clots, and enjoy food-inspired songs performed by the award-winning Copenhagen Barbershop Chorus.
Talk: The History of Margarine
19 – 19:15 (in Danish)
20.30 – 20.45 (in English)
22 kg! That’s how much margarine the average Dane consumed in 1936. Enough for a world record. Hear historian and curator Malthe K. Bjerregaard tell the story about the complicated and sometimes strained relationship between food and health. The talk takes its starting point in a very common everyday food item: margarine.
Talk in Danish: Sensory Gastronomy
19.30 – 19.45 (in Danish)
21.00 – 21.15 (in Danish)
Did you know that your senses play a huge role when you eat? Maybe that’s why we don’t “just” eat what’s healthy and right for our survival. Our eating experience is not only based on physiological factors but also on a multitude of sensory impressions that shape our food choices. With gastrophysicist Louise Beck Brønnum.
Talk: Fasting – a way to Healthy Aging?
20:00 – 20:15 (in Danish)
21:30 – 21:45 (in English)
What happens in the body when you fast? New research shows that intermittent fasting positively affects our health and reduces our biological age – you can literally fast yourself younger! Join aging researcher Morten Scheibye-Knudsen as he talks about fasting, health, and why we might not only need to consider what we eat, but also when we eat.
Concert: Copenharmony
22.30-23.00
Enjoy a festive concert with the bubbly Copenharmony. Hear them interpret old margarine jingles and many other catchy songs about coffee, ice cream, and all sorts of delicacies. Copenharmony is an award-winning choir of singing gentlemen, that will make a festive ending to this year’s Culture Night.
Family activity: Superfoods and (un)appetizing colors
Kl. 18-20
Broccoli that tastes like gummy bears or ketchup that doesn’t stain the clothes. Come and invent your own super food using colored pencils and your imagination. You can also explore the colors of food and see how they affect our appetite. Finally, you can take a unique selfie where you and your family is transformed into yellow margarine.
The Collection up Close
Kl. 21-22
The museum’s collection staff have once again been on the lookout for exciting objects and great stories in the museum’s extensive medical history collection. See a 100-year-old famine bread, the throat doctor’s board of swallowed objects, and a cirrhotic liver – all up close.
Drop-in workshop: Clotting in Clay
Kl. 19.30-21
Did you know that blood clots can have many different causes? For some people, genetics is a factor, while for others, lifestyle and diet play a significant role. In this workshop, we explore blood clots – we make blood clots in clay while hearing about the latest research and learning how modern medicine treats blood clots today. With science communicator Matilda Tjelldén.
