Newsletter
Highlights of 6. May 2013
Let’s take a look at how little privacy is accorded to the most private matter of all – an individual’s sexuality.
Highlights of 18. March 2013
When Springtime Friskiness Returns
Highlights of 19. February 2013
Everything in life involves ... physics. Today’s Highlights deal with soapsuds and lactic acid.
NL 2013/01
Abortion in Canada: Part of the Health Act Rather than a Crime for 25 Years Now. The doctor Henry Morgentaler succeeded after a decades-long struggle
Highlights of 15. January 2013
Our Highlights of the new year: design of medicines’ packaging and a vaginal douche.
Highlights of 23 October 2012
Did You Know: A Woman Belongs to Her Husband, Children Belong to the State
NL 2012/09
“Sensibly Planned Parenthood Rather than the Continued Exploitation of Women’s Bodies and Souls”: Individual Psychologist Margret Hilferding passed away 70 years ago.
Highlights of 11. September 2012
Two Highlights for everyone returning from holiday: an innocent-looking briefcase and an apparently dangerous metal object
Highlight of 9. July 2012
Highlight(s) at these temperatures: Water!
Highlight of 11. June 2012
Today’s Highlights Will Make You Angry
NL 2012/05 a
Invitation: Fifth anniversary of MUVS
NL 2012/05
Madame Restell – a moralist drove her to her death
Highlights of 16 April 2012
A great discoverer and the 'morning-after pill' in Germany.
Highlights of 26 March 2012
Today’s Highlights: two birthdays
NL 2012/03
The MUVS is Now Five Years Old: 80 square metres and 20,000 visitors
The Highlights of 2 February 2012
Communicating information about disease and health is an art that involves more than mere knowledge of the natural sciences:
The Highlights of 8 November 2011
What we can learn from the garden hose
The Highlights of 5 October 2011
In recognition of its significant contribution to the preservation of cultural treasures and technologies, the Museum of Contraception and Abortion was included in the Excellence Club – The Best in Heritage by the European Heritage Association.
NL 2011/09
Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) Died 45 Years Ago
Family Planning Was Claimed to Be a Communist Plot
The Highlights of 23 August 2011
Hurray, the New Highlights Are Here!
The Highlights of 20 July 2011
The maiden tea and the future child: What it is and what it isn’t.
The Highlights of 16 May 2011
Count Zeppelin’s airship not only inspired Frankfurt butcher Stephan Weiss to create his Zeppelin sausage, it was also greeted enthusiastically by condom supplier E. Vier & Co of Dresden.
The Highlights of 29 March 2011
'This Will Get the Stork’s Beak in a Twist'
Our Highlights for (Hopefully!) the End of Winter
The Bound Stork and a Central Piece of Furniture
NL 2011/02
‘God’s Blessing’ in Figures:
British economist Robert Malthus was born 245 years ago
The Highlights of 20 January 2011
‘Sour makes you happy’ and a 1960s era pregnancy test
Highlights dated January 17, 2011
Headstrong Camels and a Lack of Progress in Ireland
NL 2010/10
Right to abortion still only exists on paper: a Council of Europe decision about the obligations of healthcare providers is temporarily overthrown
Our Tickets and Guided Tours
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Highlights dated October 19, 2010
Believe It or Not, Penises Are Flexible!
NL 2010/9
William Harrison’s “Ride on This Tiger” Has Come to an End.
The outspoken abortionist from Arkansas has died at the age of 75
Today's Highlights
‘Music is poetry of the air’
NL 2010/08
‘Counting the Days’ for Family Planning: Not Recommended for Spontaneous Lovers, but Helpful for Couples Having Difficulty Conceiving.
Austrian Gynecologist Hermann Knaus Passed Away 40 Years Ago
NL 2010/06a
Unwanted children were a substantial source of income – 'Baby farming' and abortionists saved women from social ostracism.
NL 2010/06
Special Prize goes to Vienna at European Museums Awards on 22 May 2010
- The Museum of Contraception and Abortion is given the Kenneth Hudson Award
NL 2010/05
The forgotten doctor Mensinga died 100 years ago We have this gynecologist from Flensburg to thank for the diaphragm.
NL 2010/03
Thank you, Johanna Dohnal!
NL 2010/02
We’re proud of our Museums’ Seal of Quality!!
NL 2009/09
'Abortion is a woman’s right!' Initiative
Petition to be considered by Parliament and local council
NL 2009/09a
"The law forces thousands to die this way ... frightened to death ... can no one help us?"
80 years ago Friedrich Wolf's play "Cyankali" premiered
NL 2009/07
Looking for physician and writer Fritz Kahn (1888 - 1968)
NL 2009/06a
The human right to self-determination
NL 2009/05
"Regrettably it cannot be prevented"
The device to calculate safe and unsafe days caused a huge stir
NL 2009/04
To supplement our focus on eminent Viennese gynaecologist Hermann Knaus, this newsletter introduces one of Knaus' opponents who became known because of his Nazi involvement.
NL 2009/02
"To avoid the disgrace"
Goethe's Gretchen is based on a historical case.
NL 2009/01
Open Letter to Cardinal Christoph Schönborn
NL 2008/12
The State needed to demonstrate its power
In honor of the 70th birthday of Dr. Horst Theissen
NL 2008/11
Bestselling author Michael Crichton promoted a woman's right to abortion
"Our laws ... are hazy, ill-defined, and absurdly strict"
NL 2008/10
"Woman is not essentially capricious"
50 years after Marie Stopes' death
NL 2008/08
Abortion 400 years ago: the old Meichsner woman and her daughter
NL 2005/12
Pregnancy tests
NL 2008/06
15 years ago, birth control pioneer Hans Lehfeldt passed away
"Doctors must deal with contraception much more than they do now."
NL 2008/07
"To Study Together With Your Partner"
German Beate Uhse published her first sex education 60 years ago
NL 2008/05
Inventor of the Karman Cannula
NL 2008/04
"For women whose health does not allow for rapid family growth"
130 years ago, Anna Lohman a.k.a. "Madame Restell" cut her own throat.
NL 2008/3b
Canada leads the way: fewer abortions, reduced maternal mortality
NL 2008/03a
Unwanted pregnancy on stage
Author Ödön von Horvath presents slice of life
NL 2008/02
Contraception was physicians’ no-no
February 9 commemorates Aletta Jacobs’ (1854-1929) birth
NL 2007/13
Private museum protects Austrian cultural heritage.
The great Austrian gynecologist Hermann Knaus is kept a secret.
NL 2007/12
Women’s Rights in Ireland: A Blot in the Map
Pioneer of Family Planing has died
NL 2007/10
Doris Lessing denounces consequences of ban abortion
Literature and arts convey social and political messages
NL 2007/11
“It’s the man who should be punished"
NL 2007/08
Hermann Knaus (1892-1970 - Detective of the Fertile Days
NL 2007/05
Contraception 100 Years Ago
NL 2007/03
Documenting Success - From Infanticide to Contraception
NL 2006/12
The intrauterine Device
NL 2006/03
The tale of the pill: A forgotten revolution
NL 2005/03
Approval of the pill in Japan, attempted abortions using ergot in ‚A doctor for everybody’ by E. Hofmann (1925), Hulka Clip for female sterilisation
NL 2005/01
Kyusaku Ogino (1882 -1975), cervical pessaries, Pearl Index
NL 2005/02
Coke as emergency contraception, George Michaels (1912-1992), prepare a sheepgut condom yourself, Male sterilisation
NL 2004/03
Seasonale (pill), Nestoron (spray), Austrian Researcher Haberlandt, Catholic Church (Knaus, Krenn)
NL 2004/02
Splint of wood from Uganda, Doris Lessing ‚In pursuit of the English’ (1960), Viennese Foundling Hospital
NL 2004/09
‚Hygiene of human reproduction’ (1926), Ishimoto Shidzue (1897 – 2001), IUD 'Majzlin Spring'
NL 2004/07
Käthe Kollwitz (1867 – 1945) on the front page of a 1913 leaflet 'Love – without unwanted children!', Bidet, 'fling sperm out of the vagina' (Friedrich Eduard Bilz, 1900)
NL 2004/08
Sigmund Freud (1856 – 1939), Margaret Sanger (1879 – 1966), mysterious ‚Lily’ latex condom from Shanghai
NL 2004/05
‚Atlas of sexuality for adults’ (1971) by Günther Hunold/Beate Uhse, stem pessaries together with an implementation device ('Uterector'), Restellism
NL 2004/06
‚Foetal abortion using toxins and other means‘ by Louis Lewin (1850 –1929), ‚apparatus for women’s protection’, or ‚Powder Blowers‘, F.E. Bilz (1900), Dalkon Shield
NL 2004/04
Madame Restell/A. M. Mauriceau (1847), IUD 'Dana', 'How to avoid heavy family growth' (1912)