Free visit of the Museum

Name: Visita libre al Museo
Start: 2023-09-16T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée municipal - Espace Culturel "La Monnaye"

The museum of Meung-sur-Loire offers 3 spaces of visits: collection Gaston Couté, drawings, manuscripts, autoru scores of the poet libertarian chansonnier of the Belle Epoque; collection Quatrehomme …

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

Musée de Meung-sur-Lorie

The museum of Meung-sur-Loire offers 3 spaces for visits: Gaston Couté collection, drawings, manuscripts, autoru scores of the libertarian poet of the Belle Epoque; Quatrehomme collection (archaeology, paleontology and numismatics) real collector’s office, and a temporary exhibition room.

About the location

Musée municipal - Espace Culturel "La Monnaye"

22 rue des Remparts, 45130 Meung-sur-Loire

Loiret
Centre-Val de Loire

The museum presents the collection Gaston Couté (1880-1911), chansonnier and poet of the beginning of the XXth century: photos, drawings, manuscripts, partitions(scores), originals(eccentrics), unpublished of which poem "Redemption" of 1897... You will also discover an archaeological, paleontological and numismatic collection, presented in form of cabinet(office) of curiosity. Numerous flints, cut stones, prehistoric tools, as well as fossils mainly coming from the Mer des Faluns (15 million years) wait for the curious. Finally, a shop window(showcase) bibliophilique with rare and precious works of three big(great) names having made history magdunoise: Jehan de Meung (Roman de la Rose, born in Meung in 1250), Villon (the Big(Great) testament writes in the jails of the castle of Meung) and Dumas (Three musketeers, therefore intrigue begins in the inn of the frank miller of Meung).