Medical Museion, Copenhagen

Medical Museion, Copenhagen (Denmark)

Medical Museion is a museum and research unit in Copenhagen Denmark dedicated to the history of health and disease in a cultural perspective. Part of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen its principal area of interest is the recent history of the material and iconographic culture of biomedicine. It is based in a listed building from 1787 on Bredgade in Frederiksstaden. The museum is based in a Neoclassical building from 1787 designed by Peter Meyn which used to house Academy of Surgery an institution which was responsible for the education of surgeons in Copenhagen between 1785 and 1842. The central exhibition space is the former auditorium where dissections were carried out as part of the training.