Free visit of a museum housing the remains of a 12th century cloister

Name: Visita libre a un museo que alberga los restos de un claustro del siglo XII
Start: 2023-09-15T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée du cloître de Notre-Dame-en-Vaux

15 - 17 septiembre 2023Passed

@Châlons VAH

A stroll in this museum will allow you to discover or rediscover the remains of this cloister built in the years 1170-1180 and which was destroyed in the eighteenth century and rediscovered in the 60s. Come and admire the decorative and historiated capitals, the statues columns and the cornices and pillars forming this cloister unique in Europe.

About the location

Musée du cloître de Notre-Dame-en-Vaux

Rue Nicolas Durand, 51000 Châlons-en-Champagne

Marne
Grand Est

Having joined with the north facade of the church of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, monument today registered on the world heritage of the UNESCO, the cloister was built in years 1170-1180\. Destroyed in 1759 and 1766 by the canons and the parishioners who did not want to pay repairs any more, he falls into oblivion during the two centuries. Excavations(Searches) begun(undertaken) by Léon Pressouyre between 1963 and 1976 allow to rediscover and to bring three quarters to light of the elements of the cloister. They reveal a building of an exceptional iconographic wealth and of a big(great) decorative sumptuousness which establishes(constitutes) a major monument of the history(story) of the sculpture at that time of transition between Novel and Gothic. Statues-columns, decorative capitals(big tops) and historiés, cornices and pillars which trained(formed) this unique(only) set(group) are presented in a museum nearby immediate of the area of the old(former) cloister today. The property of this monument-museum was transferred in 2007 to the city of Châlons-en-Champagne.