Musee de l'Assistance Publique

The Musée de l'Assistance Publique was dedicated to the history of Paris's hospitals and was located in the 5th arrondissement on the Quai de la Tournelle. The collection was housed in the Hôtel de Miramion, an early 17th-century building that had previously served as a girls' school and as the central hospital pharmacy. With around ten thousand objects, the museum offered a broad look at the development of medicine from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Visitors could admire French and Flemish paintings, historic furniture, pharmaceutical faience, textiles, and medical instruments. The offerings were rounded out by an apothecary garden in the courtyard, planted with sixty-five medicinal plants. The museum has been closed since 2012, and a possible reopening is currently being evaluated.