OPEN HOUSE - Medicinsk Museion

Medical Museion is placed in the heart of Frederikstaden. The beautiful classically-inspired building from 1787 is today the setting for Medical Museum. The building is surrounded by the buildings of the first hospital in Denmark: the old Frederik’s Hospital, today known as the Design Museum The Buildings of Medical History During Open House you will be able to participate in a guided tour through the medical history that the building is housing. The tour starts in the Auditorium – an architectural masterpiece by Peter Meyn with visual references to the Pantheon. Today the building is a museum and the tour focuses on perceptions of the body and understandings of disease from antiquity to modern-day genetics, from earlier humoral theories to today’s chemical analyses. Here you get a broad outline of medical history set in rooms that formerly held students studying surgery as well as the professor's residence. Hear about the history of surgery in Denmark, about bloodletting and intestinal irrigation as well as older ideas of what caused cholera.