Description:
The town's most intriguing museum is in the Ancien Hôpital St-Jean, founded in 1174 to care for the sick. The museum is known for its famous tapestry, Le Chant du Monde (The Song of the World), designed by Jean Lurçat and executed in 10 panels between 1957 and 1966. It depicts an abstract conglomeration of beneficent suns, popping champagne bottles, and life cycles of birth and death. You can visit a 17th-century dispensary, with earthenware jars and trivets still on its wooden shelves, and see everything from a Romanesque cloister with a secret garden to a pewter vessel from 1720 that once contained an antidote for snakebites.
- © Frommer's 2012
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Awards:
Frommer's
- Highly Recommended 2010
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Contact:
- tel: 02-41-24-18-45
Address:
- 4 bd. Arago
- Angers
Hours:
- Daily 10am-7pm
Strenuousness:
- No Sweat
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