Musée de sciences biologiques Dr Mérieux

Om museet

The museum is located in Marcy-l’Étoile, within the Metropole of Lyon, the village where Marcel Mérieux set up his first laboratories in 1917. Over time these produced sera, vaccines and later diagnostic tests distributed worldwide. The museum has been open since 2007 and is run by an association.

The permanent route shows how, from antiquity to the present day, scientists gradually came to understand the mechanisms of infectious diseases: Hippocrates, the beginnings of microbiology with Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch, the invention of the microscope and then the electron microscope, zoonoses and the history of vaccination, up to recent innovations. The horse serves as a common thread, as for a long time it supplied sera against infectious diseases.

The museum welcomes individual visitors, families, school groups and adult groups, offers workshops for children, and complements the visit with urban walks in Lyon on the theme of health.

Højdepunkter

• Route from antiquity to the present day on infectious diseases
• Light and electron microscopes to handle
• History of Marcel Mérieux and the Institut Mérieux in Marcy-l’Étoile
• The horse, the museum’s common thread and source of sera
• History of vaccination

Permanent udstilling

• Parcours permanent : la grande épopée de la biologie – A journey across centuries and continents tracing the microbes and the scientists who discovered them, and then the strategies developed to protect against infectious diseases.

Grundlagt

2007

Ejer

Association du musée (loi de 1901)

Entrépriser & rabatter

The self-guided visit ticket gives access to the permanent route and the temporary exhibition. The Lyon City Card is accepted. Payment in cash, by bank card or by cheque.

Tilgængelighed

• Kørestolsvenlig
• Elevator: ingen oplysninger
• Handicaptoilet: ingen oplysninger
• Handicapparkering
• Servicehunde tilladt: ingen oplysninger
• Taktile tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Rundvisninger på tegnsprog: ingen oplysninger
• Letlæste tilbud: ingen oplysninger
• Synstolkning: ingen oplysninger

The museum is accessible to visitors with reduced mobility; one parking space is reserved for them.

Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Interaktive stationer
• Børnefødselsdage

Handling light and electron microscopes, seeding a Petri dish, workshops for ages 6 to 10 (1 hour) and “Lab’anniversaire” birthday parties in the museum’s laboratory for ages 6 to 11.

Transport & parkering

Deliveries are made to 309 Avenue Jean Colomb.

Service & spisesteder

• Café: findes ikke
• Restaurant: findes ikke

No café and no picnic room. The Domaine de Lacroix-Laval, a 5-minute walk away, has picnic areas and a covered barn for bad weather.

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Firmaarrangementer

Op til 40 personer.

Meetings and events for associations or work teams, up to 40 people: permanent route with an optional guided tour, meeting room with video projector, flexible workshop room and reception area for a cocktail. Requests at least three weeks in advance.

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