THE FORMER SCHOOL OF NAVAL MEDICINE

The museum occupies the buildings of the former naval medical and surgical school of the Hôpital de la Marine. Created in 1722 by Jean Cochon-Dupuy, the king's physician, it was the first military medical school in Europe, and also the oldest naval medical school in the world. The superb library, created in 1818, houses 25,000 books: some are old, others surprising and often exotic (travel accounts, notes on the peoples observed). If you visit the museum between May 15 and September 20, this year you will discover the workshop of the platypus, an animal that aroused many reactions and doubts in the scientific community when it first arrived in Europe!