Gallery: Medical Museion has some weeeeiiiird stuff

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Gallery: Medical Museion has some weeeeiiiird stuff

30/06-10 kl. 20:00 Culture / Life Science / Medical museion

In Copenhagen over the Easter break and feel like looking at babies in vats, dental torture instruments and machines that say pling?

Check out the Medical Museion, the University of Copenhagen's medical museum on Fredericiagade 18, 1310 København K. The museum is open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday from 13-17.

Until Sunday 4 April 2010, the exhibition 'Part and whole. Fragments from the time of biomedicine' is open. It is a material and visually experimenting journey into modern bio-medicine.

A few months ago, our University Post reporter Marie Czuray was caught outdoors in the snow and ice. She went into the exhibition, and was pleasantly surprised. Click on the first picture and follow her photo tour.

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