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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ashifa Kassam

Take two Van Goghs daily: the growing popularity of museum prescriptions

Two women look at a painting of some flowers in a vase.
Doctors are prescribing visits to museums from Montpellier to Massachusetts as a complement to more traditional treatments. Photograph: Valentin Flauraud/AFP/Getty Images

It was about six years ago that Nathalie Bondil heard of doctors prescribing outside the boundaries of traditional medicine, scribbling out orders to walk, cycle or swim, or sending their patients into nature.

As she made her way through the halls of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, however, she was certain that its collection of Inuit art or paintings by Claude Monet or Camille Pissarro, could also be just what the doctor ordered.

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