Visits to the museum-library and the old collection

Name: Visites du musée-bibliothèque et du fonds ancien
Start: 2023-09-16T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Centre Culture, Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, 72120 Saint-Calais

Guided tours of the museum-library of Saint-Calais, with its cabinets of curiosities.

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Musée-bibliothèque - centre culturel de la ville de Saint-Calais

Guided tours of the museum-library of Saint-Calais, with its cabinets of curiosities.
Guided tours of the ancient fund.
1889 inauguration of the first museum-library of Saint-Calais: it is in this atmosphere borrowed from the 19th century that you are invited to discover this unique place, between the cabinets of curiosity and the richness of an old collection gathering nearly 8,000 books. Paintings, naturalistic collections, exotic objects, and books invite you to discover our history.

À propos du lieu

Centre Culture, Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, 72120 Saint-Calais

Place de l'Hôtel de Ville, 72120 Saint-Calais

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Pays de la Loire

Cultural Center that brings together: the Museum-Library, the Old Fund, the Media Library, the Cinema, Exhibition rooms and animations.
Reopening in 2009: The Museum’s collections, separated from the heritage library for more than fifty years, were originally attached to the thousands of books in the old collection. The presentation of the most beautiful objects and collections of the Museum-Library are displayed in cabinets of curiosities staged as if we were in the 19th century. The natural history office of Abbé Elie Cottereau and the travel office of the Rear Admiral and Commander of the Far East Wing, Lucien Gigault de La Bédollière are fine examples. Finally, the presence in this place of a precious material called «Shroud of Saint-Calais» for having enveloped the relics of Carilephus, founder of the abbey, symbolizes very well the two origins of Saint-Calais: these religious origins and its revolutionary heritage.