Dossier exhibition: «Faces of History»

Name: Dossier exhibition: «Faces of History»
Start: 2021-09-18T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Hôpital Bicêtre

This exhibition presents portraits of patients, hospitallers and philanthropists from the 18th to the 20th century.

18 and 19 September 2021Passed

Conditions

Free entry

APHP/ F. Marin

By participating in the Ministry of Culture and Communication’s “La classe, l'œuvre” program, The AP-HP Museum allows students from a class in the Infant Neurological Rehabilitation Unit at Bicêtre Hospital to develop their creativity through the observation of works of art and artistic production.
The works created by the children will be the subject of an exhibition from June 22. In addition, the museum of the AP-HP will present its own collections around the same theme of the portrait. This exhibition presents portraits of patients, hospitallers and philanthropists from the 18th to the 20th century. Reproduced in painting, sculpture, engraving or photography, these faces bear witness to the history of life in the hospital.
The exhibition will be presented at the Bicêtre Hospital (exhibition hall of the Mathieu-Jaboulay building, door 36). Information and information at 01 40 27 50 05 or contact.musee@aphp.fr

About the location

Hôpital Bicêtre

78 rue du Général-Leclerc 94270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre

Val-de-Marne
Île-de-France

The origins of Bicêtre date back to the middle of the 13th century, when Louis IX donated an estate on the territory of Gentilly to a colony of Chartreux. Around 1286, Jean de Pontoise, bishop of Winchester, acquired the domain abandoned by the Chartreux and built a feudal keep.
Subsequently, on the site of the feudal castle was destroyed. Louis XIII built a hospital for wounded soldiers.
In 1656, Mazarin decided to attach this hospital to the general hospital created by the King. Bicêtre was assigned to men, vagabonds, old men, destitute of all kinds (in 1668 there were 600 boarders). At the same time, the Bicêtre hospital became a state prison, an insane asylum and a hospice.
In 1823, it was transformed and was called “Hospice de la Vieillesse Hommes” and in 1885, “Hospice de Bicêtre”. Still visible, these old buildings, parallel to each other, erect their brick gables in front of the functional hospital rebuilt in the years 1970-1971.
The Bicêtre Hospital Centre continues to develop