Art & Anatomy: crossed drawings Musée Fabre / Musée Atger

Exhibition organized by Musée Fabre and Université de Montpellier, Musée Atger

Date:February 28-May 31, 2020. Reopening August 31-October 31, 2020
Opening times and locations:Musée Atger, Faculty of Medicine (historic building), Monday to Saturday, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm (including public holidays, extended opening hours during the exhibition) and Musée Fabre, Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm.

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The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier celebrates its 800th anniversary this year. Founded in 1220, it is the oldest practicing medical school in the Western world.
To mark the occasion, the Musée Atger and the Musée Fabre are organizing a joint exhibition of their graphic arts collections, focusing on the human body.

Since the Middle Ages, Montpellier has played a central role in medicine, and is internationally renowned for the quality of its medical teaching and top-level research. Renowned physicians, as well as numerous artists, have contributed to this rich history by understanding the human body as an inexhaustible source of knowledge and artistic inspiration.

The "art and anatomy: crossed drawings musée Atger / musée Fabre" exhibition offers a unique opportunity to discover the scientific and artistic drawings that helped students learn about the human body.
The Musée Fabre presents a collection of early treatises on anatomy, as well as academic studies of the human body collected by François Xavier Atger (1758-1833), an enlightened medical humanist.
The Musée Atger section is devoted to portraits. It focuses on facial expressions as seen through the eyes of artists from the 16th to ^the20thcenturies.

This first innovative collaboration between the two museums allows us to discover the complementarity of marvellous collections intimately linked to the history of Montpellier and its scientific aura.
Unveiling these works to the general public allows us to better understand the prestigious past of our city and the singular place occupied by medicine and its teaching.

(Presentation by Françoise Olivier, in charge of heritage promotion at the University of Montpellier)