Musée Regards de Provence
Former maritime health station of steam rooms and disinfection chambers, turned art museum with original nineteen forties ironwork.
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This guide to the Musée Regards de Provence traces a nineteen forty-five commission handed to three architects, among them a young Fernand Pouillon, to build a precision public-health station for the port of Marseille, complete with showers, steam rooms, and chambers rigged to fumigate arriving travelers. You'll hear why international health rules shifted only a few years later, and what that meant for a building engineered to process thousands. Look closely at the original nineteen forty-eight ironwork around you as you listen.
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