Pre-Congress Workshop on Museums of Medical History. Skrevet 14 May 2009 av Nina

The XXII Nordic Congress on the History of Medicine

Pre-Congress Workshop on Museums of Medical History.

Wednesday June 3rd 2009

Bryggens Museum, Dreggsallmenning 3


09:30-10:00 Coffee and registration

10:00-11:30 Welcoming address: Museology, History and Medicine: Museums of Medical
History and the Modern History of Medicine


I. The institution and the narrative
Chair: Kerstin Hulter Åsberg

10:15-10:35 Olav Hamran, National Museum of Medicine, Oslo: The Sanatorium Children. Experiences from Suffering from Tuberculosis and from Institutional Treatment.
10:35-10:55 Halvor Fjermeros, author, Kristiansand: "Feeble-minded!" - a Contribution to the Cultural History of the Central Institutions and the Care of the Mentally Retarded.
10:55-11:15 Marie Skoie, National Museum of Medicine, Oslo, and Grete Eilertsen, Bergen City Museum, Bergen: Unheard Voices and Forgotten Places: Collecting Narratives from the History of the Mentally Retarded.
11:15-11:30 Discussion

11:30-11:50 Break


II. Medical collections and artefacts
Chair: Olav Hamran

11:50-12:10 Inger Johanne Lyngø, Norwegian Culture Council: "Food for Thought" - on Materiality and Mentality.
12:10-12:30 Arne Skivenes, Bergen City Archives: Medical Journals in History - Documentation and Artefacts.
12:30-12:45 Discussion

12:45-13:45 Lunch


III. The medical exhibition
Chair: Sigurd Sandmo

13:45-14:05 Kerstin Hulter Åsberg, University of Uppsala: Exhibiting Anaesthesia and Pain Relief in the Medical History Museum of Uppsala, Sweden.
14:05-14:25 Morten Skydsgaard, Steno Museet, Århus: The Incomplete Child (“Det uperfekte barn”). Boundaries of the Body and the Guest.
14:25-14:45 Discussion

14:45-15:10 Coffee break

15:10-15:30 Ellen Lange, National Museum of Medicine, Oslo: Invisible World - Visualising the Invisible Parts of the Body.
15:30-15:50 Henrik Treimo, National Museum of Medicine, Oslo: BRAIN 2011 - an Exhibition in the Making.

15:50-16:10 Closing discussion

16:10-16:30 Nordic-Baltic cooperation and further networking.
Chair: Kerstin Hulter Åsberg