Exhibition: Hand-Stitched Surgery at the Grenoble Hospital

This temporary exhibition is part of the cultural program of the Museum of Medical Sciences from Grenoble, and traces the evolution of surgical practice in Grenoble hospital. Since 1992, the year of its creation, the museum began its action of conservation and valorisation of the medical and hospital heritage, in partnership with the CHU of Grenoble and with the support of the general council of Isère. As the main activity of the museum, the exhibitions gives concrete expression of the cultural dimension and the dissemination to the public of its missions of census, collection, and preservation of the medical heritage, and of the collective memory, often neglected or forgotten. These exhibitions, strongly rooted in local history, are based on the testimonies of the hospital's active and retired staff, and are built around the collections of various items gathered by the museum since its creation. At a time when the Grenoble University Hospital is inaugurating the new interventional platform, this exhibition, through objects, books and iconographic documents, makes it possible to measure the progress made and to appreciate the improvement in the conditions of care.