Musée du Cloître
Place Berteaud, 19000 Tulle
- Corrèze
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Museum installed(settled) in a cloister, Gothic building of the XIIIth century which trained(formed) with the church the heart of the abbey Saint Martin de Tulle. Listed(Classified) in conformance with(for) historic monuments in 1840 and in 1862, today the whole site is the property of the State.
The galleries of the cloister offer a mixture between Gothic elements of the XIIIth century and of returns(restorations) due to the campaigns(countrysides) of reconstruction which knew this building from the end of the XIXth century. One of these campaigns(countrysides) ends in 1928 in the reconstruction of the West gallery intended(designed) to shelter the museum. At the end of the gallery the chapter house is keep(preserve) an exceptional wall decoration(set) of the XIVth representative the Last Supper and the entrance(entry) of the Christ to Jerusalem. Having created by the Company(Society) of Letters Sciences and Arts of the Corrèze the museum shelters various collections: religious art, laces in no Tulle, paintings(paints), drawings, watercolors...
Tags
Musée de France, Musée, salle d'exposition, Monument historique & Édifice religieux
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