Napoleonic Historical Reconstruction

Name: Reconstrucción histórica napoleónica
Start: 2024-05-18T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-18T23:45:00+02:00
Location: Musée Massey

The 2024 edition of the European Night of Museums at the Massey Museum will be placed under a double historical sponsorship.

Sábado 18 mayo, 19:00Passed

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The 2024 edition of the European Night of Museums at the Massey Museum will be placed under a double historical sponsorship.
On the one hand, that of the Mountain Hunter Battalions of the Pyrenees who from 1808 to 1813, then during the Hundred Days of 1815, protected our borders with Spain from Hendaye to Collioure.
On the other hand, that of Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, this bigourdan born in Beaudéan in the Hautes-Pyrénées in 1766, surgeon of legend of the armies of the Revolution and the Empire, inventor of the flying ambulances. The legacy of his work at the service of the Fatherland and Humanity is still alive.
From 19:00 to midnight, you will discover around the replica of an ambulance team of the Imperial Guard, the bivouac in tents of a dozen passionate volunteers costumed and equipped with soldiers of the Grande Armée. Go and meet them! Through the glorious and unhappy memories of their campaigns, they will make you relive the great moments of the Napoleonic epic from Italy to Egypt, then from Spain to Russia, which helped to found our Modern Europe.

About the location

Musée Massey

Jardin Massey, 65000 Tarbes, Hautes Pyrénées, Occitanie, France

Hautes-Pyrénées
Occitanie

Massey Museum
Located in the heart of a «remarkable» garden, the Massey Museum reopened to the public in 2012 after a major phase of restructuring and renovation of the building and collections. The museum route takes place on two levels where two of the major collections of the museum are displayed: the international collection of the Hussards and the Beaux-arts collection. The Massey Museum is the first museum labeled «Musée de France» in the world to dedicate a collection of art and history on the hussars, this light cavalry corps with Hungarian origins that made the fame of the city of Tarbes. The new museography invites the visitor to go back chronologically the history of hussars in the world. It is a spectacular set of 150 mannequins that is presented, alternating complete uniforms, busts, clothing or equipment pieces of incredible richness and diversity. The multimedia approach offers interactive and pedagogical reading keys to facilitate the meeting of the public with this col