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Psychiatrists Are Now Prescribing Museum Visits to Help Patients With Burnout and Anxiety

Jo Lawson-Tancred, September 20, 2022 | ARTNET

It is hoped that the scheme will encourage patients to feel more socially engaged and able to participate in the rich cultural offering of the city of Brussels, Belgium

IMG:  Michael Jacobs/Art in All of Us/Corbis via Getty Images

The initiative is part of a pilot study in Brussels.

Frequent museum goers may notice that they aren’t just expanding their minds but also unwinding them by relieving stress.

A pilot study at Brugmann University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium, is testing whether art and culture can relieve people’s everyday anxiety by focusing their minds on more positive stimuli. As part of a new six-month pilot project, some patients suffering from poor mental health will be offered a “museum prescription.”

The scheme will offer up to five free visits to Brussels cultural institutions, accompanied by friends or family. The voluntary treatment would be added to the range of existing services, including medication and therapy, and is reserved for those suffering from relatively mild conditions, such as burnout, depression, and anxiety.

Participating organizations include contemporary art space Centrale, the Fashion and Lace Museum, the Sewer Museum, and the extensive wardrobe that dresses up the city’s infamous public statue Mannekin Pis, a little boy peeing.

The initiative also aims to foster reconnection among a society that spent years locked up during the pandemic. It is hoped that the free visits will serve as a catalyst to encourage more active participation in Brussels’s rich offerings.

“I want everybody back in our cultural institutions,” the city’s deputy mayor for culture, Delphine Houba, told the Guardian. But there have long been financial and cultural barriers to access. “They don’t feel at least, they don’t think that it’s for them.”

She said the project was inspired by a 2018 scheme which saw Canadian doctors prescribe free visits to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

One of the organizers, Hélène Boyer, vice-president of Médecins francophones du Canada, told the Montreal Gazette at the time that art therapy has scientifically proven health benefits. “It increases our level of cortisol and our level of serotonin. We secrete hormones when we visit a museum and these hormones are responsible for our well-being.”

The success of the pilot program in Brussels will be measured by patient feedback to their doctor. If it appears to be having a positive effect, the initiative may be extended to include more museums and other activities, such as visiting the cinema.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/mental-health-museum-prescription-brussels-2178582

Emperor penguin chicks huddle in San Diego, after being flown from Antarctica, to be part of a NSF study 11/16/1988. NARA ID 6448028.

NARA ID 6448033.

Image by C-141 Flight Engineer SMSgt Bob Pederson, 10/1997.

CUTE PENGUINS! Brought to you by the National Science Foundation By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

We're cooling off with penguins from Antarctica! The connection might not be obvious, but we hold millions of records from the National Science Foundation dating back to 1907! (NSF, Record Group 307). NSF manages the U.S. Antarctic Program, which includes penguin research! Selected penguin highlights below.

First Class Travel?

Emperor penguin chick in insulated crate aboard a 7th Military Airlift Squadron C-141B Starlifter, en route to San Diego for NSF. 11/16/88. NARA ID 6448031.

Emperor penguins adorn a C-141C Starlifter displaying the successful missions to Antarctica for Operation DEEP FREEZE, a joint military operation of the US and New Zealand militaries to provide logistic support for the NSF's Antarctic program.

More penguin records!

Original caption: "All together now fellows, let's take it once more!" The McMurdo Sound penguin choir tunes up for yuletide carols under the direction of a crew member from the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Glacier. " 12/1966. NARA ID 205581227.

Penguin photo op!

"Polar researchers photograph Adelie penguins on the ice pack." Antarctica. NARA ID 6421522.

WWII Penguin Poster

NARA ID 514163.

DON'T Feed the Penguins!

"Miss Vernice Anderson feeding the Adelie penguins in their natural habitat in Antarctica." January 1977. Truman Library.

Cold penguin? Or penguin with a cold?

NARA ID XSC-G-14-4.

Do penguins need a cigarette break?

NARA IDs XSC-G-17-1 and XSC-G-17-3. From photos relating to Byrd Antarctic Expedition II, 1933 - 1935.

More online:

“Penguins Don’t Fly”: The Senate Military Affairs Committee, Secretary of War Baker, and Aircraft Production, 1918, Text Message blog by Greg Bradsher. It’s Cold Outside: Photos from the Second Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Text Message

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