Musee Flaubert et d'Histoire de la Medecine

Fascinating small museum

Maybe because I grew up in a medical family, and because I have read Flaubert, I loved this small museum and its quirky, occasionally grotesque, displays. I was especially fascinated by the detailed i...

Inexpensive and Pretty Small

Museum is a bit unusual. Everything is in French, so I didn't get a lot out of it. Eclectic collection of artifacts. All self guided. Not a very big museum. We were definitely there less than an ...

Like it or loathe it

I found it quite gruesome (the medical experiments and hospital atmosphere) but my partner loved all that, so horses for courses.

Go if you are interested in medicine and have an hour to kill

Maybe the unenthusiastic attendant should have been an indicator. This small museum, in Gustave Flaubert's boyhood home, also housed his father's medical practice. The collection is eclectic but at ti...

Only museum I have ever regretted going to in all of France

Who has not heard of Madame Bovary? I went seeking more about the novelist and his character. Found his birth bed. The museum was more about antiquated medical fads, mummies and ideas about pregnan...