The Faculty of Medicine and the Cultural Centre of the University of Debrecen are organizing a special display with the title Semmelweis Icon.
Date: Sunday (17th of June) 11:00 am
Venue: DOTE Gallery, Debrecen (98. Nagyerdei Blvd.)
Program: Opening ceremony of a display organized by the Faculty of Medicine and the Cultural Centre of the University of Debrecen. Title of the exhibition is Semmelweis Icon. The display will be opened by dr. József Mudrák medical historian. He will be accompanied by the Monteverdi Choir of the University of Debrecen. Conductors: Ildikó Takács and István Pazár.
The MNM’s Semmelweis Museum of Medical History, Library and Archives evokes the shape and discovery of Ignác Semmelweis, showing how Semmelweis’s image has changed over the past one and a half hundred years. The exhibition examines the work of the famous Hungarian doctor not only from the point of view of the history of science: now, the emphasis is on the cult of Semmelweis.
Semmelweis portraits, documentaries and feature films, the 19th-20th century reminiscences and the most prominent texts of historical and popular literature evoke a tragic life of a famous doctor. The exhibition also sets out the questions about how the traumas of Semmelweis’s life unfolded, and how and in what way were these traumas his contemporaries’ or Semmelweis’s own responsibility.
Through the story of Ignác Semmelweis, the exhibition presents how the figure of a modern doctor sacrificing himself was born at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. By recalling Semmelweis’s oeuvre, the family of the Hungarian doctor, the circumstances of his discovery and the recognition of his great work are also going to be presented to the audience. The original Semmelweis Icon Exhibition was successfully presented by the MNM Semmelweis Medical History Museum in Budapest and Rome in 2013.
Visiting the display is free. The exhibition can be visited every day between 8:00 am ad 8:00 pm until the 6th of July.
Source: press release
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