http://www.corporeality.net/museion Medical Museion @ University of Copenhagen Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:39:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Split + Splice, Del + Hel, is about the inter-relations between the culture of biomedicine and the enormous complexities of 21st century living.  The exhibition explores these complexities through the material culture, objects and instruments used by biomedical practitioners in research and in clinical activities. Much as biomedicine itself, Split + ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/07/01/split-splice/ Interesting initiative --- I am thinking of the launch of the Archives, Collections and Curatorship section of the Journal of Design History, which could be useful for those of us who work with the history of medical technological artefacts. The journal section wants authors to evaluate the relevance of an archive or collection as ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/06/29/someone-interested-in-medical-archives-and-collections-in-a-design-history-perspective/ When New York-based artist Joan Linder passed by Medical Museion a late afternoon a few weeks ago, we took a tour around the collections. We came into the X ray collection room right after 5 PM, at the rare moment when a lonely sunray found its way between the adjacent buildings ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/06/28/visible-and-invisible-radiation/ Make a note in your 2010 calendar already -- for the 15th Congress of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences (EAMHMS), which will be held here at Medical Museion in Copenhagen, 17-19 September 2010. The congress theme revolves around the question: How can medical history museums contribute to the popular engagement ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/06/20/15th-congress-of-european-association-of-museums-for-the-history-of-medical-sciences-in-copenhagen-september-2010/ Here are some pictures from the opening of Split and Splice last Thursday, 11 June --- parts of the audience, the opening speakers and lots of invited guests in the exhibition rooms and the reception tent afterwards:                                                    ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/06/19/from-the-opening-of-split-and-splice/ The Akismet filter doesn't work 100%, so we get a handful of spam comments for moderation each week. They are almost always deleted after a short glance, of course. For the two last weeks, however, a certain dtpizk[at]yahoo.com has passed through the spam filter with a wave of comments, which are sort of interesting --- a series of short, vague and polite comments about how great ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/06/18/useful-spam/ In addition to Split and Splice, we have recently opened another and smaller exhibition in the reception hall --- Eye Catchers and Swagger Images: Research in Poster Format (Danish: Blikfang og blærebilleder: forskning i posterformat) --- with a selection of our collection of scientific posters, from the mid-1980s to the present. The idea behind the exhibition goes back to ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/06/16/eye-catchers-and-swagger-images-a-new-exhibition-about-scientific-posters/ Despite our current low posting frequency, the new blog-ranking service BlogRank has Biomedicine on Display as #7 on their museum blogs top 25-list. http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/06/15/biomedicine-on-display-ranked-as-7-museum-blog-in-the-world-2/ Last Thursday, we opened our new temporary exhibition Split and Splice: Fragments From the Age of Biomedicine (Danish: Del and Hel: Brudstykker fra biomedicinens tid) here at Medical Museion. In the next couple of days, we will hopefully be able to upload some images from the opening (depends on when ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/06/14/split-and-splice-fragments-from-the-age-of-biomedicine-new-exhibition-at-medical-museion/ As a comment to the current weeding out of physical copies of scientific journals in many libraries around the world (because more and more older journal series are put online), Karen Reeds points out (in a recent comment on the H-SCI-TECH-MED list, #105, 2009) that there are good reasons to ... http://www.corporeality.net/museion/2009/06/05/interest-in-book-and-journal-marginalia-grows-as-google-puts-books-online/