Palais du Roure

Name: Palais du Roure
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Palais du Roure

Temporary exhibition «Joë Hamman, a man of legends»

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

©Ville d'Avignon

Temporary exhibition «Joë Hamman, a man of legends»
Free visit of the exhibition on Joë Hamman, painter, inventor of Western cinema in France and collector of Native American objects.
"An object, an anecdote"
Anecdotes about the exhibition «Joë Hamman, a man of legends»
10h30, 11h30, 14h30, 15h30, 16h30. Duration: 10-15 minutes
Every hour, we will tell you the story behind a work or an object. «Game booklet»
Free family visit of the exhibition «Joë Hamman, a man of legends»
With the help of a playbook, children discover in a playful way the exhibition about Joë Hamman, inventor of the Western cinema in France and collector of Native American objects.
New tour route
We invite you to discover the new route in the permanent collections.
Family discovery of the collections
2 devices are available at the reception: «A la découverte des collections» and «Au Roure en famille»
With the help of play materials, children discover the amazing collections of the Palais du Roure free course

About the location

Palais du Roure

3 rue Collège du Roure, 84000 Avignon

Vaucluse
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'azur

The old(former) Hotel of Baroncelli-Javon, called Palace of Roure in the XIXth century by Frederick Mistral, was built at the end of the XVth century by Pierre Baroncelli, Florentine banker. Deeply altered at the end of the XVIIth century, he took the turn of a mansion and sheltered, till the beginning of the XXth century, the descendants of Pierre Baroncelli, become marquess of Javon. In 1907, the family had to sell the hotel which knew then, during decade, ten of irremediable degradations. It is a woman, Jeanne de Flandreysy (1874-1959), native to Valencia(Valence), which acquired(bought back) in 1918 the old building and saved it from the ruins. Non-stop, during more than thirty years, she(it) worked on her(its) rehabilitation. Friend of Frederick Mistral and of Folco de Baroncelli, enthusiast of Latin culture, it attempted to restore all its chandelier(luster) in the old(former) palace and made at once a museum, a library(bookcase) and a centre of studies renamed(reappointed), to the glory of Provence and of Latin cultures. She married in 1936 Emile Espérandieu (1857-1939), archaeologist of great renown, whose archives, archaeological collections and library(bookcase) came enrich the Palace of Roure. He(It) also passed on(also transmitted) his(its) fund(collection) concerning the Great War. By three donations (on 1944, on 1947, on 1959), Jeanne de Flandreysy gave the Palace of Roure and its collections in the City of Avignon.