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Facts
Guided tours
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Special guided tours and school services by appointment
City walking tours
The Museum arranges walking tours of the city every Sunday at 11 in May-September
School services
| Museum of medical history in Denmark
The Surgical Academy
The Medical Museion is situated in the old Royal Surgical Academy from 1787, where surgical education in Denmark was first offered. The buildings create a strong historical context for the history and culture of medicine. The many slanting stairways, the evaporation vessels built into the walls, and not least the placing and size of the rooms, give evidence of this early history. The central room of the building is the original anatomical theatre from 1787.
From obstetric aid to straitjackets
Obstetric aid and epidemics, operations without anaesthetization, cells for the mentally ill, and strait jackets. All of these give an impression of the different periods’ ideas about diseases and their treatment. At the museum are operating chairs and anaesthetic machines, surgical knives, pulverised mummies in jars, obstetric forceps, sickbeds and paintings. Frightening, but also fascinating expressions of the different periods’ efforts towards finding the right tools – in more than one sense – for combating disease and administering treatment.
Guided tours of the exhibitions
To see the exhibitions you must take one of the guided tours offered four times a week. The guided tours offer interesting stories about health and sickness, and the development of medical science through the last centuries. The tours, very appropriately, begin in the old auditorium where in former times the surgeons to be had dissection and anatomy lessons. After this, the tour touches upon themes such as epidemics, psychiatry and surgery, as well as a historical look back on dental clinics, pharmacies, hospitals and obstetric aid.
The Museion is situated in the centre of Frederiksstaden – the neighbourhood around Amalienborg Castle – right next to the first public hospital: the Royal Frederik’s Hospital (today the Danish Museum of Decorative Art). | |