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"For more than a decade, the French city of Lille’s Palais des Beaux-Arts —
which was inaugurated in 1892 and is home to France’s second largest collection
behind only the Louvre — has deployed a kind of “museo-therapy” that uses the
museum space and the treasures held within it to help treat patients from local
hospitals.
But in September 2023, this initiative became a little more formal when it
signed an agreement with the University Hospital Center of Lille (CHU) to offer
140 museum art therapy sessions over a year to patients who have been given a
“museum prescription” by doctors, making it one of the most significant
programs of its kind in the world.
The idea of a museum prescription, which fits under an umbrella of
out-of-hospital, nonclinical treatment known as social prescribing, is that
exposure to art and culture or history can complement, accelerate or
potentially even displace some forms of medical care in traditional settings —
in an effective, enjoyable and low-cost manner."
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
