Guided tour of the Bicêtre Hospital and the exhibition “Faces of History”

Name: Guided tour of the Bicêtre Hospital and the exhibition “Faces of History”
Start: 2021-09-18T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Hôpital Bicêtre

Guided tour to discover the Bicêtre hospital in a new light.

18 and 19 September 2021Passed

Conditions

grease on registration

Registration

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To discover the Bicêtre Hospital in a new light, a guide-speaker will comment on the court of the massacres, the Grand Reservoir, the well. The guided tour will conclude with the exhibition «Faces of History». A class of students from the URNI (Child Neurological Rehabilitation Unit) of the Bicêtre Hospital - AP-HP worked on the art of portrait drawing inspiration from painted and sculpted portraits. The self-portraits created are presented in this exhibition accompanied by the collections of the AP-HP museum. These painted, engraved, sculpted or photographed faces bear witness to the history of hospital life over the past two centuries.

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