On November 7th and 8th, we invite you to the Women's Health Festival for the second year in a row. The museum will be transformed into a bustling arena for new research, strong cultural events, dance, workshops and conversation cafes.
Living in a body that follows a monthly hormonal cycle and can bear children, but which is still underexplored in medicine, offers both brutal and wonderful experiences throughout life. The public inquiry into women's health concluded that women's voices must be raised when it comes to their own health. The Medical Museum takes this seriously.
The festival opens with a Morning Disco before we meet in the heart of the museum for performance, storytelling, stage talks and a researcher relay. Workshops and family tours will take place in parallel. The topics will be about sports and the female body, women's sexuality in the history of medicine, femtech and the new national knowledge portal Kvinnehelse.no.
Together we will find a language for what is known, but for which we may not have had words, and get useful tips about women's health that you can take with you. The program launches at the end of August.
You can visit conversation cafes and stop by the festival's market stalls with simulations and great conversations about how hormones affect the body and mind at different stages of life. At Hormontorget you will also get demonstrations of how to perform a gynecological examination and practical information about women's heart health.
There will be several cultural events based on women's health. The festival will also present ongoing and recently completed research projects on lipedema, vestibulodynia, hormones and oral health, severe migraine, bipolar disorder - as well as quality of life, social support and stress among immigrant women during pregnancy and after childbirth.
You are also invited to participate in activist sewing and stencil workshops and the Body and collage rice workshop.
The festival is a collaboration between the Medical Museum at The Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology , the Women of Health and the National Center for Women's Health Research at OUS.
Norway's National Museum of Technology, Industry, Science and Medicine. Here you will find exciting exhibitions and activities a short distance from central Oslo.
