Journées du patrimoine - Visite du musée Fragonard
September 19 at 10am
Maisons-Alfort
Animal anatomy collections
Upcoming events at Fragonard Museum
Science ExhibitionScience Exhibition🦴"One of a kind, mesmerizing museum" — well worth the trip from central Paris
🧪"The models have a true artistic quality to them" — fans of natural history will love it
🔊English audio guide included with your ticket
Peer into the bizarre world of 18th-century anatomy at this veterinary school museum, where thousands of skeletons and dissected specimens culminate in Honoré Fragonard's hauntingly preserved "écorchés" (flayed figures). The models straddle science and art, beautiful and disturbing in equal measure, offering a window into Enlightenment-era medicine that still shocks today.
Natural history museum
Cabinet of curiosities
18th-century science
Veterinary heritage
Science ExhibitionScience Exhibition🦴"One of a kind, mesmerizing museum" — well worth the trip from central Paris
🧪"The models have a true artistic quality to them" — fans of natural history will love it
🔊English audio guide included with your ticket
Peer into the bizarre world of 18th-century anatomy at this veterinary school museum, where thousands of skeletons and dissected specimens culminate in Honoré Fragonard's hauntingly preserved "écorchés" (flayed figures). The models straddle science and art, beautiful and disturbing in equal measure, offering a window into Enlightenment-era medicine that still shocks today.
Natural history museum
Cabinet of curiosities
18th-century science
Veterinary heritage