Guided tour of collections museum

Name: Visite guidée collections musée
Start: 2022-09-18T15:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu

Discovery of permanent collections

Dimanche 18 septembre 2022, 15h30Passat

Inscripcion

0134788660 reservation.patour@manteslajolie.fr

Ville de Mantes-la-Jolie

In the old medieval chapel of the Hôtel-Dieu, discover the history and landscapes of the Mantois through a guided tour of the museum’s collections. On the ground floor, a medieval set of stained glass windows and sculptures from churches of Mantes-la-Jolie. On the first floor, the largest European collection of works by Maximilian Luce. It traces the life and work of this pioneer artist of neo-Impressionism, his view of society and the changing landscapes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

À propos du lieu

Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu

1 rue Thiers 78200 Mantes-la-Jolie

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Labelled Musée de France in 2002, the Hôtel-Dieu museum is located near the Notre-Dame collegiate church. Built in the fourteenth century under the reign of Charles V and heavily redesigned in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the building underwent new assignments from the eighteenth century: prison under the Revolution, hospice, orphanage then, successively, theatre, café, cinema and ballroom before being acquired by the City in 1962\. The chapel of the Hotel-Dieu was declared a Historical Monument in 1948 for its 17th century facade and listed as a Historical Monument for the rest of the building in 1964\. The restoration of the building completed, the museum was inaugurated in 1996\. The museum houses a lapidary collection from the Collegiate Church and the church of Sainte-Anne de Gassicourt, as well as works by the post-impressionist painter Maximilien Luce (1851-1941), illustrating the themes of the landscape in the Seine Valley, river tourism, industrial growth and the c

Etiquetas

Musée, salle d'exposition, Monument historique, Musée de France