The Mummy Maren
When a person is buried, the body usually disintegrates - from earth you came, to earth you shall remain.
Sometimes something quite different happens.
Under very special basic conditions where the dead body is in moist soil without access to oxygen, one becomes mummified.
Then the body's fatty tissue is converted into a soap-like substance, and this is how the Mummy Maren came to be. Join the conservators on an expedition to find out who Maren was and the story her remains tell.
Artist: Lucy Lyons
Hygiene pictures
Vaccines are not the only way to fight infectious diseases.
The simplest and most effective way is actually hygiene and clear distinctions between dirty and clean. The Norske Kvinners Sanitetsforening was quite aware of this and began in the early 20th century with public information about hygiene.
In 1930, the association produced a series of slides that were used in their campaign.
Artist: Unknown
Josefine's medication
"As a 16-year-old, I was given too much medication. I was given many carrier bags a month."
Over the course of seven years, a mountain of medication had piled up at Josefine's house.
The doctors had prescribed them for her, but she thought they made her sick. The cartoon explores our understanding of reality, and different perceptions about what should be treated and in what way.
Artist: Åshild Kanstad Johnsen
The orgone cabinet
Wilhelm Reich developed the Orgone Cabinet in the 20th century after discovering a natural force that he called orgone energy.
He constructed a cabinet that would collect and concentrate the energy so that people could bathe in it.
Reich lived in Norway from 1934 to 1939 and had a great influence on Norwegian social life.
The orgone cabinet was quite popular in this country, and therefore you may come across one in a warehouse or in a cellar. Artist: Tord Torpe
Resusci Anne
In Paris in the 19th century, a young girl drowns in the river.
She is so beautiful that a death mask is made of her. The masks became popular, and people wanted to hang them in their living rooms at home. At the same time, in the United States, the doctor Peter Safar has developed a method of resuscitation;
the word-of-mouth method. Together they create Resusci Anne. Artist: Anja Dahle Øverbye
