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Stepping down as Director of Medical Museion – the true story (part 1)

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It’s official now.  After having been in charge of the Medical Museion for 16 years, I’m stepping down as Director by the 1st of July.

Wow, that’s a long time! It’s about one third of my adult life since high school. I started university in 1965, and spent the next 35 years as student, teacher and researcher, before I got the chair in history of medicine at the University of Copenhagen in 1999.

The irony is that I no idea I should become a museum director. Me and the museum wasn’t love at first sight, on the contrary. I had never thought of becoming

Back in 1997, I applied for the chair in history of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. The announcement didn’t say anyting about the museumin August 1999, the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, persuaded  me to