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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In 1975, a traditional Thai house was dismantled in northern Thailand and shipped to Denmark. It was assembled a few months later in surroundings quite different – but arguably just as beautiful – in close proximity to old Moesgaard Manor, where Moesgaard Museum is also […]
Do any of you watch Doctor Who? The brilliant British TV series about an alien called a Time Lord, who travels in time and space in his time machine (shaped like a blue Police Box), usually accompanied by a human sidekick or two. It is […]
How many of us really know how it sounds when two armies, fighting with shields, spears, and swords, collide? We have seen it in the movies, when Roman soldiers in shiny helmets slaughter their Pictish enemies, when the warriors of Rohan collide with ranks of […]
Uhmmm… vacation. The annual break from the hectic normal life. Days to be spent under a blue sky with a cool drink and a good book within reach – in a hammock. This is the recipe – at least for me – for a perfect […]
This last month, the view from Moesgaard Museum has looked somewhat different than usual. The sweeping vista of green fields and tall trees has been interrupted by a stage in the shape of a massive Viking ship lying on its side, and a stand seating […]
It is that time of year again. Birds are singing in the morning, anemones and daffodils are shooting out of the ground, and the trees are covered in vivid green buds, just longing to burst. Spring is here! In Denmark, the winter is long, dark […]
Imagine taking your family and travelling halfway around the world, to a place, which is strange and wholly different from everything you know. Now imagine that it is 1874 and that place is Madras in India. What do you bring from home, to remind you […]
The readers will have to excuse the author for being even more of a nerd than usual. But in museum ethnography and some part of anthropology, the explanatory powers of objects are being explored these years. I just read a book a couple of weeks […]
Beheading has long been one of the most common ways of execution. In Europe in the Middle Ages, beheading was considered an honourable form of death. With the introduction of the guillotine during the French Revolution, beheading became the norm for commoners and nobility alike. […]
