New exhibition: THE WORLD IS IN YOU

What are we doing to the world? It is arguably the leading question of our time. Life in the Anthropocene means we are constantly confronted with how we affect and change the world around us. But this entanglement of bodies and world flows in both directions. Our environment also shapes our bodies and our lives, for good and for ill.

The Space section of the exhibition displays objects from ESA, NASA, Danish Aerospace Company A/S and the Mars Group at the Niels Bohr Institute as well as a meteorit from Steno Museeum in Aarhus.

We inhabit a network of connections that range from the microscopic to the planetary. Our cells detect the shift from day to night, setting our body clocks in line with the rotation of the planet.

The things we eat, touch and put in ourselves affect the trillions of microbial companions living on and inside of us. The generations that came before us have left traces on our DNA. The gravity of our planet limits our dreams of life among the stars.

The exhibition The World is in You takes its starting point in new biomedical research that seeks to understand our bodies, our health and our world. But conversations about the insights reached by scientific research cannot be confined to separate disciplines. They flow into the realms of art, history, culture, philosophy, politics and more. Together, they pave the way for new understandings of how our bodies are connected to the world around us.