Musée de l'Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, Medical museum in 5th arrondissement, Paris, France

The Musée de l'Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris documents the evolution of medical care through a collection of around 10,000 objects, including paintings, furniture, pharmaceutical items, and historical medical instruments. The holdings reveal how Parisian hospital practices and patient care developed across centuries.

The museum was founded in 1934 and housed in the Hôtel de Miramion, a 17th-century building that previously served as a Catholic school and central pharmacy for Parisian hospitals. The location itself reflects the deep roots of medical care in the city.

The museum's name comes from the Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, the institution that ran Paris's hospitals and founded it in 1934. Its collections grew from late-19th-century efforts to save pharmaceutical faiences and paintings from older hospitals, joined in 1935 by the decorative ensemble of the interns' guard room of the demolished Hôpital de la Charité.

The museum is closed to the public since June 2012, so it cannot be visited; its administrative offices moved to Bicêtre hospital in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. The Hôtel de Miramion stands at 47 quai de la Tournelle, near the Maubert-Mutualité station on metro line 10. The building can be seen from the quai, with its blue arched door inscribed "Liberté Égalité Fraternité".

The museum closed to the public in June 2012, and its administrative offices moved to Bicêtre hospital in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. The 2002 apothecary garden of 65 medicinal plants was laid out in the courtyard of the Hôtel de Miramion, the 17th-century mansion on quai de la Tournelle that housed the collections.