Medical Museion is located on Bredgade in Frederiksstaden, in a neoclassical 1787 building that once housed the Royal Danish Academy of Surgery. Generations of students sat in the anatomical theatre here, learning about the human body through dissections and lectures. Today the site is part of the University of Copenhagen and serves as a combined museum and research unit focused on the cultural history of health, disease and biomedicine.
Exhibitions trace medicine from early surgery and epidemics to psychiatry, imaging technologies and modern life sciences. A highlight is “The Body Collected”, presenting historical collections of skeletons, organs, tissues, cells and DNA from the 18th century to the present, alongside instruments, laboratory equipment and anatomical specimens that are not for the squeamish. The preserved anatomical auditorium and densely curated galleries offer a vivid, sometimes unsettling look at how our understanding of the body and illness has evolved.
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