Medical Museion is a combined museum and research unit at the University of Copenhagen. The field of inquiry is the interface between medical science, aesthetics, design and history.

The museum is situated in the beautiful building of the former Royal Academy of Surgeons from 1787 and adjacent buildings in the inner city of Copenhagen. The neighbourhood (Frederiksstaden) is a candidate for inclusion in UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

Our permanent and temporary exhibition area is approx. 1000 sq.m. Current exhibitions include Obesity: What's the Problem, Balance and Metabolism, Biohacking, Medikoteknik, and Light Break.

The focus of Medical Museion’s research programme is medical history, medical humanities, medical science communication and medical museology. We have currently about 15 academic staff, including PhD students, attached.

Medical Museion has one of the biggest and richest historical collections of medical artefacts in Europe. The collections contain 150,000 — 250,000 artefacts (depending on what counts as a individual artefact). We also have a large image collection, a document archive, and a historical book collection.

The museum was founded on a private initiative in 1907 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Danish Medical Association with a public exhibition of historical medical artefacts. It remained a public museum until 1918, when it was taken over by the University. Today, the museum is part of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences.

Wednesday: 12 pm – 16 pm
Thursday: 12 pm – 16 pm
Friday: 12 pm – 16 pm
Sunday: 12 pm – 16 pm