Medicinsk Museion — Attraction in Copenhagen Municipality

A very interesting museum that showcases medicine using a mixture of science, art, and ethics. The opening times are a bit shorter than the other museums in Copenhagen, but I think that it is definitely worthwhile to take a look. The entrance fee is covered by the Copenhagen card. All exhibits and signs are written in both Danish and English. Access to the different exhibits involves walking up and down stairs. As is explained in the short introduction that you are recommended to attend before starting the exhibits, the building is a part of the medical district and used to be used to educate doctors in Copenhagen.

The permanent anatomy exhibition (not recommended for children) was interesting in that not only were preserved body parts shown, but also more modern techniques such as molecular biology and cell culture were also described. There were many interesting, semi-interactice videos and slides. However, in some cases, explanations were a little lacking so it was not certain what you are watching.

The temporary exhibitions that were showcased when I went were the corona exhibition and the gut and mind. It was interesting to see the corona exhibition, especially as there were many references to previous epidemics. I was a little surprised that a more creative approach was used for the gut and mind exhibition, which features an artistic film and a fun (but not very scientific) task that gives you candy at the end. But there were descriptions on the types of experiments that were done to study the...

The Museum of Medicine (Medicinsk Museion) is research, sharing, experimentation… "Culture of Medicine - yesterday, today and tomorrow". Set up within the historic headquarters of the Royal Academy of Surgeons, a building dating back to 1787, it is a research unit of the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Copenhagen and at the same time a museum dedicated to the history of health and pathologies in a cultural perspective. Inside are preserved tools and iconographic material of a historical nature, concerning biomedicine and the culture of health in Denmark and in the world. The collection was founded in Copenhagen in 1906 by a group of doctors. Within the Medicinsk Mueseion, Hippocrates, Polybius, Galen and Humoral Physiology cannot be missing. A historical, philosophical and scientific excursus between organs in formalin and ancient drugs. a very informative museum whose purpose is to tell the last centuries of medical history through the tools, techniques, discoveries and even authentic anatomical finds, so this museum is not suitable for small children or...

Interestingly designed museum: the building itself is quite old. The medical institute was located here and medical scientists lived right there. The most famous are the Bohr couple, the parents of Niels Bohr. It is shown how evidential medicine developed (when they try to understand how the body works and how to treat it). And this is against the background of obscurantism, which reigned in medicine of that time, they say, there are 4 fluids in the body: blood, lymph, yellow and black bile. And it is necessary to treat it by balancing these fluids. They say that if your head ached - it means you have too much blood, here is a bronze boot to the leg, in which a vacuum is created and blood is drained from the head to the leg. How people survived at the time with such methods of treatment is not clear. Well at least there were...