Epidemics. Caring for living things

Name: Epidemics. Caring for living things
Telephone: 04 28 38 12 12
Price range: Full price: 12 €, Reduced price: 7 €. Free entry for children < 18 years, children accompanied by an adult, the students, disabled people and accompanying persons.
Start: 2024-04-12
End: 2025-02-16

Exhibitions

Last updated date : 09/04/2024

At a time when we have all just experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, what are our memories of past epidemics, and how do we prepare for future ones?

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Epidemics. Caring for living things

Copyright Yoshikazu Utagawa, Japon 1851-1853 - Collection de la Wellcome collection, Londres

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For thousands of years, epidemics have affected human societies and other animal species worldwide. Drawing on medicine and ethnographic collections, natural history specimens and contemporary artworks, the exhibition invites us to see epidemics as not just a biological phenomenon but a social one too, in a world where human, animal and environmental health are linked.

An exhibition by the Musée des Confluences based on an original concept from the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington

Practical information

Address

86 quai Perrache - 69002 Lyon 2ème

Languages

French

Prices

Full price: 12 €, Reduced price: 7 €.

Free entry for children < 18 years, children accompanied by an adult, the students, disabled people and accompanying persons.