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FRAGILE MUSEUM

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École nationale vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort, 7, avenue du Général-de-Gaulle, 94700Maisons-Alfort, France
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2024
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This museum, one of the oldest in France, gathers very important collections that will fascinate veterinarians, students or professionals, as well as anyone interested in the animal world or medicine. By the way, be careful not to confuse it with the museum of the same name located in Paris, whose theme is totally different. You will find a comparative anatomy and teratology room, a pathology room, a skeleton room and a curiosity cabinet. It is in the latter that we find the famous "skinned" made at the time when the surgeon Honoré Fragonard (1732-1799) was the first professor at the Alfort Veterinary School. These very impressive skinned people are real human and animal bodies "mummified", adopting postures that are both useful for teaching and aesthetic. After many years of closure, the site opened again in 1991, before closing again in the late 2000s to benefit from major renovations completed in 2012.

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anneonym
Visited in june 2019
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Musee des écorchés
Impressionnante collection d'écorchés. Un peu particulière, mais très intéressante pour les vétérinaires ou toute personne passionnée par l'anatomie!
Mélite
Visited in may 2018
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Ce musée très intéressant se trouve au sein de l'école vétérinaire de Maison Alfort. Il présente une importante collection de parties d'anatomie du XVIIIe au XIXe siècle. La pièce maîtresse du musée est les écorchés, de Fragonard (qui était professeur d'anatomie et directeur du musée). Les collections comportent des squelettes, des animaux ayant des anomalies, et bien sûr, différentes maladies comme des calculs, des lésions, la tuberculose,...
La visite se fait grâce à un audioguide qui présente l'essentiel pour la compréhension des collections du musée.
An incredible, exciting and awful museum at the same time. Far from known (including Parisian), it is necessary to get there at least once in my opinion.

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