Musée-Hôtel Le Vergeur
36 place du forum, 51100 Reims
The Museum-hotel bears the name Nicolas Le Vergeur, middle-class person of the XVIth century when they think enriched thanks to the gabelle removed from the attic from salt of Cormicy. Compound(Made up) of two bodies of buildings(ships), one of the XIIIth century and other one of the XVIth centuries, he(it) passed in the hands of different owners among which the Clicquot-Ponsardin family or the Belleau family. He(It) is acquired in 1910 by the Reims sponsor Hugues Krafft (1853-1935), founder of the Company(Society) of the friends du old men Reims who, after the World War I, makes it re-emerge debris then dedicates the ground floor to the museum of Old Reims. Hugues Krafft lèguera in the Company(Society) of the friends du old men Reims its collections, today exposed(explained) in the rooms of three levels of the building(ship), as are it also gifts(donations) made to the advantage of the association since 1935, containing works of antiquity in the XXth century. The Museum-hotel Vergeur was listed(classified) in conformance with(for) Historic monuments in 1916\.
Tags
Monument historique, Musée, salle d'exposition, Musée de France
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