Guided tour of the Bicêtre Hospital and discovery of the exhibition «Faces of History»

Name: Guided tour of the Bicêtre Hospital and discovery of the exhibition «Faces of History»
Start: 2021-09-18T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-19T17:45:00+02:00
Location: Hôpital Bicêtre

Guided tour of the Bicêtre Hospital and discovery of the exhibition "Faces of History"

18 and 19 September 2021Passed

Conditions

Mandatory Registrations

Registration

APHP/P.Simon

Discover in a new light the hospital Bicêtre (AP-HP): while walking the court of the massacres, the Great reservoir, the well. Rediscover the history of a hospital that has in turn been a place of assistance, state prison and asylum.
The tour ends in the exhibition hall where the exhibition “Faces of History” is currently presented. It reveals portraits of patients, hospitallers and philanthropists reproduced in painting, sculpture, engraving or photography. These faces bear witness to the history of hospital life over the past two centuries.
■ Appointment: Bicêtre hospital, departure of the visit in front of the main entrance - 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94 270 Le Kremlin-Bicêtre A map will be given to you during the registration confirmation. Time of departure for visits: 11h, 14h, 16h15 - Duration: 1h30 Registration required, information at 01 40 27 50 05 or contact.musee@aphp.fr
Access: Metro 7: Le Kremlin-Bicêtre; Bus: 186, 125 pour l'arrêt Convention Jaurès & 47, 131, 323 pour l'arrêt Hôpital de Bicêtre.
Not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

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