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Could visiting a museum be the secret to a healthy life?

By Emma Dupuy, Postdoctoral researcher, cognitive neuroscience, Université de Montréal

It’s Saturday morning. You are barely awake, with a cup of coffee in your hand, and your gaze wanders to the window. It’s raining. So you make up your mind. This afternoon, you will go to a museum.

But what if, without realizing it, you just made a good decision for your health?

That’s the hypothesis put forward by the Association des Médecins francophones du Canada in 2018, when it launched the museum prescriptions…

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