Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine

  • Museum
  • Chapel
  • Church
  • Religious art
  • History
  • Health
  • Sciences and techniques
  • Popular arts and traditions
  • Trade
29 Place du Marquis Jacques-François Hôtel-Dieu de Hautefort, 24390 Hautefort
The Museum offers a unique collection in New Aquitaine.
Discover the progress of medicine throughout history.
The permanent collection of several thousand items and
books retraces the major developments in radiology, dentistry
and instruments of radiology, dentistry, gynaecology...
and their practices. The room dedicated to pharmacy allows you to navigate from the herbalist's shop (traditional herb mill) to the pharmacy and to understand how medicines were made in the past.
The emblematic patients' room recreates the atmosphere of a 17th century ward. A place at the heart of the Hôtel-Dieu de Hautefort.
Temporary exhibition 2021: "The work of Louis Pasteur, the artist and the visionary". The visit begins or ends with a discovery of the medicinal herb garden arranged by the Herbalist in Hautefort.

Services

Car park
Animals accepted
Shop
Children's games / Play area
Wifi

Payment methods

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Location

Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine
29 Place du Marquis Jacques-François Hôtel-Dieu de Hautefort, 24390 Hautefort

Spoken languages

Spoken languages
  • French
  • English

Environment

Environment
  • In the country
  • Near a motorway
  • Close to a Route Nationale
  • Accessible on foot from the tourist office
  • Footpaths
  • In the village
  • In the town centre
  • Véloroute voie verte

Access

Access
  • Motorway : Péage de la Bachellerie sortie 17
  • Road (national / local) : D704
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