Présentation du musée d’art et d’histoire de l’Hôpital Sainte-Anne (MAHHSA). La Collection Sainte-Anne. De sa constitution au Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de l’Hôpital Sainte-Anne (MAHHSA)

Abstract

The Sainte-Anne Collection, by its history and the diversity of its works, is a metaphor for the question of the multiplicity of springs of creativity. If its constitution is in 1950 (at the end of the first international exhibition of psychopathological art held during the first world congress of psychiatry in Paris at Sainte-Anne hospital), its existence is closely linked to the artistic, political, psychiatric history of the first part of the twentieth century. The Centre d’Étude de l’Expression has managed this collection since 1973, and it is a question of making sure that this unique set of works is inventoried, restored, preserved in good conditions and presented at numerous exhibitions, around specific themes, open to the public. Each exhibition has the opportunity to destigmatize these works. The Sainte-Anne Collection is not part of a parallel story, but of the history of contemporary art. This is how special recognition was granted in 2016, since the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de l’Hôpital Sainte-Anne has received the Musée de France designation.