The Medical Museion at University of Copenhagen won this year’s Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits, a prize that recognizes “excellence in museums and museum exhibits that interpret the history of technology, industry, and engineering to the general public.” The Split + Splice exhibit attempts to view biomedicine from different perspectives, including art, science, law, media, and the humanities.
Here’s a bit about the exhibit from the museum:
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 + Splice is an innovative hybridisation of complex practices. It is not exactly science communication; it will not teach you comprehensively about the field of biomedicine. It is not exactly old-fashioned history of science; it will not show you a triumphalist progression of miraculous discovery. It is not exactly an art exhibition; it will not leave you with a sense that you have seen inside a solo mind.
Announcement from the Medical Museion: The Split+Splice exhibition at Medical Museion receives the Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits 2010…
Link: Split + Splice exhibit…