Every autumn, the Journées du Patrimoine (Heritage Days ) are held to delight the passionate and the curious, with a fabulous program of visits, often free of charge, and original events to help us discover our heritage treasures. The event is sure to attract Parisians of all ages, with a host of cultural bargains on offer. In Paris and the Ile-de-France region, museums, monuments, churches, châteaux and even ministries, embassies and major institutions open their doors to reveal their secrets. A rare opportunity not to be missed!
The City of Light unveils a wide-ranging program for this event, which returns for its 42nd edition on the weekend of September 20 and 21, 2025. But the surrounding region is not to be outdone: the whole of theÎle-de-France region joins in the Journées du Patrimoine dance.
If you're in the Val-de-Marne or want to discover the treasures of the Ile-de-France region, you'll find the town of Le Kremlin-Bicetre in Paris' inner suburbs, accessible by public transport. Here, we present our special program for the Journées du Patrimoine 2025.
Heritage Days 2025: exhibition and tours at the AP-HP Museum (94)
The AP-HP Museum, located in Kremlin-Bicêtre in the Val-de-Marne, is taking part in the new Heritage Days on Saturday September 20 and Sunday September 21, 2025. [Read more]
The exhibition À pleines dents! From tooth puller to expert dentist, presents 160 works and scientific objects tracing the history of dentistry from Antiquity to the present day.
From the Middle Ages onwards, the rudimentary care practiced in public by charlatan operators has had a lasting impact on the collective imagination. While this depiction reduces dental professionals to mere tooth pullers, it masks a very different historical reality: that of a discipline that innovated in many fields, such as pain management. In many respects, the 18th century was a pivotal period for the dental profession, with the appearance of treatises, reflection on training and the creation of professional statutes.
The aim of this exhibition is to revisit this caricatured and reductive vision of the dentist, and to highlight the milestones and decisive innovations of oral medicine, which had long remained on the bangs of medical care.
Visit the Bicêtre Hospital (AP-HP), with its Grand Reservoir, 18th-century well and massacre courtyard. On this tour, you'll learn all about the history of this institution, which was once a welfare center, a state prison and an asylum. The tour ends at the Museum, which is currently presenting the exhibition "À pleines dents!
Registration and booking (clickable link)
From place of assistance to prison and asylum, immerse yourself in the history of Hôpital Bicêtre. The APHP archives will be presenting a diorama of historical archives in one of the museum's rooms.
Visits must be registered with the AP-HP Museum.
Guided tours are not accessible to people with reduced mobility due to difficult access to certain historic sites.
Follow the guide and discover the exhibition À pleines dents! From tooth puller to expert dentist, features 160 works and scientific objects tracing the history of dentistry from antiquity to the present day.
Registration and booking (clickable link)
Specially designed for young and old. By observing and finding objects, discover the hidden code at the heart of the "À pleines dents! From tooth puller to expert dentist".
Registration and booking (clickable link)
Fort de Bicêtre
The aim of these tours is to present and explain the architectural and functional evolution of the fort's various buildings, constructed from 1842 to the present day. Virtual reality tours are also available.
Guided tours depart every half-hour (duration 1 hour).
Valid ID required on day of visit.
Tours are not accessible to people with reduced mobility or strollers.
Information from Fort de Bicêtre - 01 56 20 38 96
Town Hall
City Hall will hold no secrets for you! Join us on this historic tour to discover the history and architecture of the Hôtel de Ville, including access to the floors of this historic building that are not open to the public.
From 12pm onwards, the Archives department will be on hand to play games on the history of the town.
Bicêtre Park
As part of the "Mémoires en Images" series, this public space exhibition on tarpaulins retraces the life of the emblematic GEO Clock, a lookout for the city's industrial past, camped on the factory roof until August 25, 2005.
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the First Empire with a grand costume parade organized by the Le Hameau du Kremlin association.
The parade will start at rue Benoît Malon and continue along the hospital to rue du Général Leclerc. A costume contest (men, women and children) will then be held in Parc de Bicêtre, followed by a Republican banquet in front of n°68 rue du Général Leclerc.
Jean-Luc Laurent Cultural Center
An artistic encounter between Anne Batista's black felt-tip drawings and Veronica Santamaria Palombo's cyanotypes, inspired by the architecture of Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Combining poetic photographs and representations of emblematic buildings, both visible and disappeared, they offer a cross-view of the city and its memory.
Kremlin-Bicêtre Cemetery
The MCKB association offers a guided tour of the Kremlin-Bicêtre cemetery on the theme of funerary art.
Register with the association at: memoire.cimetiere.kb94270@gmail.com
Dates and Opening Time
From September 20, 2025 to September 21, 2025
Location
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre
1 Place Jean Jaurès
94270 Kremlin Bicetre (Le)
Access
Metro: Le Kremlin-Bicêtre (line 7)
Prices
Free
Official website
www.kremlinbicetre.fr
