From Smallpox to COVID: Vaccination in the Czech Lands Medical Museum Exhibition The small exhibition From Smallpox to COVID introduces the history of vaccination from Edward Jenner and the Empress Maria Theresia, through the struggle of doctors and public health specialist with tuberculosis and postwar vaccination campaigns to the vaccines defeating the COVID-19 pandemic. Visitors […]
Epidemie a pandemie: Svitavy 14.4.- 21. 5. 2022 Malá ochutnávka z toho, co na výstavě ve Svitavách uvidíte:
This butterfly is (in) oculated. Are You? Object of the Month: January 2022 The January Object of the Month is based on wordplay: the English version must therefore be an explanation, rather a translation. The COVID 19 vaccination rates in the Czech Republic remain stubbornly Central European: higher than in Romania, Bulgaria or Poland and […]
Object of the Month: June 2021 The Oldest Vaccination Attest in the Medical Museum Collection A vaccination certificate is inscribed with two names, that of a doctor or a surgeon on the one hand and that of the vaccinated child – or adult – on the other. The document has been marked by two human destinies […]
Object of the Month: May 2021 Vaccination Certificate, 1828 In the spring of 2021, after a year and half with COVID-19, coronavirus vaccines promise protection against the disease to each of us, as well as the swift end to the pandemic and return to „normal“ times. Many of us have the certificates of one or both […]
Object of the Month: April 2021 A Vaccine Pen Smallpox is the first infectious disease to be fought by vaccination. Variolation, immunization against smallpox by introducing material from pustules of a patient, had spread in Europe early in the 18th century: a surgeon cut the skin with a scalpel or a lancet and rubbed the liquid into the […]
Object of the Month: March 2021 Jet Injector from the Smallpox Eradication Campaign In 2021, the hope of people menaced by the coronavirus turns to vaccination. Several vaccines for the SARS-CoV 2 virus have been produced: the compounds are being tested and inhabitants of various countries await the injection that will protect them from the […]
Object of the Month: December 2020 COVID-19 Plush Virus Would you like a soft plush virus for your home? The Connecticut-based GIANTMicrobes company, which had brought hundreds of cuddly germs – deadly, annoying, as well as beneficial – as well as figures of vitamins, human organs and diseases to the toy market over the last two […]
Object of the Month: November 2020 Corrosive Sublimate, A Disinfectant Against the Virus, 1918 News of the current pandemic, the changing conditions and the response come as quickly as they go. Some events and pseudoevents remain in our memory even after their protagonists depart the scene. At a press briefing on April 24, 2020, Donald Trump suggested […]
Václav Kocián, Petr Kadlec, Hua Hua Architects: Gastro žije Safe Zone (2020), NLK Medical Museum. Photograph by Veronika Löblová Object of the Month: October 2020 Gastro žije! Safe Zones in Corona Times The bright yellow table „Gastro žije“ (Gastro Lives) at the entrance to the Medical Museum is a part of the museum exhibit and its […]