The Museum of the Hospices Civils de Lyon was inaugurated in 1936 in the Hôtel-Dieu, built in the seventeenth century.
Its purpose was to showcase heritage resources such as rooms from the Charité hospital having been dismantled and relocated to the premises, but also to preserve and present collections of objects (there are 15 535 in total) and documents relating to the history of hospitals and medicine.
The Hôtel-Dieu and the museum was closed to the public in 2010. It was then proceeded to a complete inventory of objects and documents, which were photographed, clichés are then digitized.
This unique fund offering a panorama of the medicine, its history, its place in society and the arts, including Lyon, is now available online. The collections from pictures are in turn accessed the Municipal Archives.
Eventually, through a conversion of the site, a new museum able to accommodate the fund of the Museum of the Hospices Civils could emerge.
Information on the collection +33 4 72 40 75 74.
