Guide to Collections Relating to the History of Artificial Internal Organs

museums, archives and libraries

Bakken Library and Museum

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum

Deutsches Medizinhistorisches Museum

DeWitt Stetten Jr. Museum of Medical Research

Dittrick Medical History Center

Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences

International Center for Artificial Organs and Transplantation

International Center for Medical Technologies

International Museum of Surgical Science

John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center

Mayo Foundation Archives, Mayo Clinic

Medical History Museum of the University of Copenhagen

Medical History Museum of the University of Zurich

Medicinhistoriska Museet

Minnesota Historical Society

Museu Nacional de Historia da Medicina

Museum Boerhaave

Museum of Health Care at Kingston

Mutter Museum

National Library of Medicine

National Museum of American History

National Museum of Health and Medicine

Science Museum of London

Semmelweis Medical Historical Museum, Library and Archives

Thackray Museum

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Medical Museum

University of Utah, Marriott Library, Special Collections

University of Washington

Vanderbilt University

Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine

repository The Medical History Museum at the University of Copenhagen
 
address Medicinsk Museion
Kobenhavns Universitet
Fredericiagade 18
1310 Kobenhavn K
Telephone + 45 35 32 38 00
Fax Number + 45 35 32 38 16
Website www.museion.ku.dk
 
Contact Person Thomas Soderqvist, Director
email service@mm.ku.dk
 
Access and Services The exhibition is open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Museum admission only in connection with guided tours at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Availability of library or archive: Monday-Friday; 9:00 -16:00.
 
Abstract The Medical History Museum at the University of Copenhagen has recently been incorporated into the Institute of Public Health, and a new Department of History of Medicine for research, teaching and museum activities has been established. The Medical History Museum consists of public exhibitions about Danish medicine, pharmacy, odontology, radiology, osteology and folk medicine.
 
 

Collections

title/date The Medical History Museum at the University of Copenhagen, 18th century to present day
 
Collection ID
 
Quantity Approximately 80,000 artifacts, and also a large collection of paintings, drawings and photographs, a library with a special rare book collection, and an archive.
 
Biographical Note The Medical History Museum was created in 1907; in 1947 the collections were moved to the building of the former Royal Academy of Surgery, a late 18th century palace in downtown Copenhagen.
 
Collection Description The collections comprise around 80,000 items from the 18th century to the present, including a large microscope collection, a comprehensive collection of radiological instruments, a collection of pharmacies, a rich collection of surgical instruments, some 30,000 odontological items, the Saxtorphian collection of gynecology, obstetrics and teratology, and collections of nephrology, electromedicine, osteo-aracheology, ophthalmology, anaesthesiology, and physiology.
 
Finding Aid None
 
Restrictions None
 
Related Material Study collections for scientists. Library, archive, picture collection.

Last reviewed: 27 August 2008
Last updated: 02 March 2007
First published: 01 March 2002
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