The Mummy Maren
When you are buried, your body usually decomposes – from earth you came, to earth you shall remain.
Sometimes something quite different happens.
Under very special conditions where the dead body is in moist soil without access to oxygen, it becomes mummified. The body's fatty tissue is then converted into a soap-like substance, and that is how Mummy Maren was created.
Join the conservators on an expedition to find out who Maren was and the story that her remains tell.
Artist: Lucy Lyons
Hygiene pictures
Vaccines are not the only way to combat infectious diseases. The simplest and most effective way is actually hygiene and clear distinctions between dirty and clean.
The Norwegian Women's Sanitary Association was quite aware of this and began educating the public about hygiene in the early 1900s.
In 1930, the association produced a series of slides that were used in their campaign.
Artist: Unknown
Josefine's medication
"When I was 16, I was given too much medicine. I was given many carrier bags a month."
Over the course of seven years, Josefine had accumulated a mountain of medicine. 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 how.
Artist: Åshild Kanstad Johnsen
The orgone cabinet
Wilhelm Reich developed the Orgone Cabinet in the 1900s 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 society. The orgone cabinet was quite popular here, and therefore you may well come across one in a warehouse or basement.
Artist: Tord Torpe
Resusci Anne
In 19th-century Paris, 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 mouth-to-mouth method. Together they create Resusci Anne.
Artist: Anja Dahle Øverbye
