Address: 1, Place Alphonse Laveran, 75230 Paris, cedex 05
Tel: 01 40 51 51 92
Fax: 01 40 51 51 93


This museum is located in the historical building of the Val-de-Grace in Paris. It has been totally rebuilt and its permanent rooms have recently been reopened (2003).

It shows the history of the French military medical service, thanks to the presentation of its main missions, the medical evacuation. The other various components of the medical service, such as research in war surgery and psychiatry, sub aquatic and aerospace medicine, or pharmacology are displayed. Hygiene and prevention of transmissible disease that have profited of the famous works of Michel Levy, Fonssagrives, Villemin or Laveran are shown. One may also discover the marvelous mortars and pharmacy pots of the doctors Debat.