Curious about Copenhagen and it’s history – or do you just want to know where the cool places are?

The KU School of Global Health in collaboration with Secrets to Patents are proud to present Power, Colonialism and Health – an audio tour of Copenhagen focusing on colonial powers, medicine and global history.

You will see important landmarks of Copenhagen, whilst learning about a very rich and interesting history. You can do the walk all by yourself, at your own pace and whenever you have the time for it.

Read more at: https://www.storyhunt.io/en/walkingtours/power-colonialism-and-health

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The Project

The Research Environment Secrets to Patents investigates the long-term history of how life-saving and health-improving medicines became for-profit commodities from 1500 to 1900. Focusing on the Atlantic Colonial Nexus, the project’s team will investigate the strategies that different historical agents used to claim ownership of medicinal knowledge.

Funding

Secrets to Patents has been generously funded by the Swedish Research Council (2025-2030) and hosted at Lund University (SE), in collaboration with the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen (DK) and the History Department of Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (BR).