What did your kids do for the Easter Holiday? Hunt for Easter eggs in the garden? Watch TV and play with Legos? Stay up later than usual and spend the mornings bumming around in their pyjamas? I can promise you that the children of the […]
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A moment of pure happiness: Solomon Island swimming goggles
After last week’s somewhat depressing post, I promised to find a more cheerful subject for this week. I have mined my memories for the most pure moments of happiness that I can recall, and one of them prompted me to select these swimming goggles for […]
Looking at the world – through a Fiat Maluch
Would you expect to see a car from the 1970s in a contemporary ethnographic exhibition? No? That, however, was what the museum guests could see in the newly re-opened Moesgaard Museum in 2014. A tiny blue Fiat Maluch displayed on a thick red carpet. What […]
Magic and Medicine: On the benefits of fungi, blood, and iron paste
Did you know that the famous 5.300-year-old ‘iceman’ Ötzi found in the Italian Alps in the 1990s carried around a fungus that worked as an antibiotic? And that it would have helped him alleviate the symptoms of the parasites scientists have found in his colon? […]
A moment of tranquillity: Danish ice skates
Do you know how it seems that winters were always colder ‘back in the days’? How in the childhoods of parents and grandparents, winters seemed to be magical times, covered in show. Times, when you could walk on the frozen ocean near the coastline, where […]
There’s no such thing as bad weather: Evenki boots
This week, the first snow of the season graced our fair city. Hundreds of Aarhusian citizens were standing by the harbour on Saturday night, celebrating the end of Aarhus as the European Capital of Culture 2017. As the music boomed out over the crowds and […]
The importance of representation: Ghanaian doll
When I was a girl, I wasn’t much into dolls. I was the kind of kid who fell asleep with my box of books next to me in my bed (along with about a 75 stuffed animals). When I, at the age of two, had […]
A royal visit and a royal shoe
Today, the Queen of Denmark comes for a visit. She will be opening the new Medieval Exhibition at Moesgaard Museum, so we are all on our best behaviour (I have to restrain myself from not running over to cuddle the bomb-sniffing dogs), and perhaps, we […]
Order and Chaos: Building an exhibition
Do you know what one of my favourite things about working at a museum is? It is sneaking into the new exhibitions as they are being constructed… Somehow, it seems impossible that they will ever be ready in time; that the half-finished sets will ever […]
A Container of Grief? The myth of the tear bottle
Warming up to the exhibition The Presence of Absence: Art, anthropology and archaeology about the life of the dead in Cyprus and Denmark, opening on the 23rd of September at Moesgaard Museum, we are presenting you with a few stories about the artefacts which will […]
The Valley of the Dolls: Cypriot wax votives
Warming up to the exhibition The Presence of Absence: Art, anthropology and archaeology about the life of the dead in Cyprus and Denmark, opening on the 23rd of September at Moesgaard Museum, we are presenting you with a few stories about the artefacts which will […]
An artist in India: The longing of a missionary wife
How do you pass the time, when your husband has brought you all the way to the other side of the world? To a strange land, with different customs? In a time, when women of a certain class were not supposed to work? And when […]
