Visit: The museum through history

Name: Visit: The museum through history
Start: 2022-09-18T11:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T12:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée de La Cour d'Or - Eurométropole de Metz

This tour traces the evolution of the museum since the 19th century, from extensions to collections enrichment, and discover how the museum has become what it is today.

Sunday 18 September 2022, 11:30Passed

Conditions

Free. Registration required.

Registration

03 57 88 38 83

©L. Kieffer ; musée de La Cour d’Or – Eurométropole de Metz

This tour traces the evolution of the museum since the 19th century, from extensions to collections enrichment, and discover how the museum has become what it is today.

The museum has multiple collections and is spread over several prestigious buildings: church of the Carmelites, Gallo-Roman baths, attic of Chèvremont, etc.

About the location

Musée de La Cour d'Or - Eurométropole de Metz

2 rue du Haut Poirier, 57000 Metz

Moselle
Grand Est

Installed(Settled) in the historic heart of Metz since 1839, this museum redraws the history(story) of the city and of the messin country of Gallo-Roman antiquity in our days. The visitor discovers to it multidisciplinary collections: archaeology, history(story), architecture and Fine Arts. The ancient bare thermal baths in situ in 1932 serve as executive(frame) at the presentation(display) of the everyday life in Roman Gaul; they are also next(also go alongside) remarkable set(group) of funeral steles and sculpted works. Other strong point, the medieval collections: Merovingian graves, religious sculptor presented in the impressive Attic of Chèvremont. The collection of paintings(paints) offers a panorama of the European schools of Renaissance in the XIXth century s. She(It) favours the big(great) artists native to Metz.