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?

Last updated date : 09/04/2024
From 12/04/2023 to 16/02/2025 between 10.30 am and 6.30 pm. Closed on Monday.
Musée des Confluences 86 quai Perrache - 69002 Lyon 2ème
Tametomo bannissant le démon de la variole de l’île d’Oshima

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

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Openings
  • From 12/04/2023 to 16/02/2025 between 10.30 am and 6.30 pm.
    Closed on Monday.
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.
  • Included with the Lyon City Card

Musée des Confluences

86 quai Perrache - 69002 Lyon 2ème

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