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Exhibitions held in Vannes Museums

Discover the archaeology and history collections held in the Château Gaillard History Museum, the engraving collections at the Musée des beaux-arts, and other master-pieces in La Cohue Fine Arts Museum.

The History Museum, Chateau Gaillard (localization)

IT’S A BEAUTIFUL CASTLE
 

Built up at the beginning of the XVth century, the ‘Château Gaillard’, rare witness of medieval civil architecture, has kept his original arrangement. In turn, town house, auditorium of the Breton Parliament, headquarter of the ‘Société Polymathique du Morbihan’, the castle welcomes the archaeology and history collections of the museum of Vannes and many other treasures… 

 

Museum collections are often brought together by individuals to whom life has, by chance, opened up areas of interest for which they have quickly developed a passion. They may be botanists, mineralogists, doctors, printers, artists or priests, but all of them share the same culture, the same thirst for discovering, understanding, sharing and passing on their passion.

 

Museums permanent collections are the heritage of passed centuries. Paintings, decorative arts objects, archeological pieces or curios produced by Mother Nature, these diversified and rich sets make up the common heritage that museums contribute to pass on to future generations. These collections, memories of passed times, are the material from which historians work on an interpretation constantly re-assessed. For that reason, museum collections can not and shall never be sold.

 

Saturday, 16th/from 8 p.m. to midnight/’La Cohue’ and ‘Château Gaillard’
THE NIGHT OF THE MUSEUMS
Like every museum of France, Vannes museums open their doors from 8 p.m. to midnight to offer the public an unusual visit of the collections of paintings and engravings at the ‘Musée des Beaux-Arts’, ‘La Cohue’, and exceptional archeologic and medieval collections at the History Museum, ‘Château Gaillard’.
On that night, the garden sparkles brightly with luminous fireflies …
Admission free
Museums open from 8 p.m. to midnight.
Information : 02 97 01 63 00 or on www.mairie-vannes.fr
 
Until June, 10th
‘INVENTERRE’
'We are living in a spaceship, the Earth is populated with six billion individuals… We have to learn to protect it . It is a question of emergency'. Come and discover the large variety of space pictures supplied by observation satellites. Didactic, interactive, the exhibition is ideal for a family visit.
 
Until June, 15th
ENGRAVINGS : HISTORY AND TECHNIQUES

The graphical arts space of the museum of Vannes proposes a thematic exhibition dedicated to engraving, entitled 'Estampe : histoire et techniques'. Original engravings by Goya, Corot, Delacroix, Géricault, Bracquemond, Frélaut, Dubreuil, Baselitz, Asse, Pincemin. The concept of the exhibition offers the visitor an elementary approach as well from the historical as from the technical point of view. The audience tackles the infancy of the art, discovers techniques sometimes slightly mysterious, familiarize itself with a specific vocabulary.

Wednesday: the permanent collections of the La Cohue Fine Arts Museum -

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: The Château Gaillard History Museum collections

 

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

STILL LIFE

The ‘Museum des Beaux Arts’ welcomes some of the most beautiful still lives of the Museum of Morlaix. The occasion of comparing periods and styles around an unappreciated genre.
 
 
PAINTINGS COLLECTIONS
 
Permanent paintings collections of the museum of Vannes are regularly renewed thanks to the deposits from different museums of France, from private collections of artists particularly attached to the museum.
 
MY FRIEND JEAN LE MOEL
 
Alfred MANESSIER, Juana MULLER, Jean BAZAINE, Jean BERTHOLLE, Elvire JAN, Gustave SINGIER, as many artists gathered around Jean LE MOAL in a common quest for modernity and innovation. A part of the permanent exhibition of the ‘Museum des Beaux Arts’ is dedicated to that group, historically known under the name ‘l’école de Paris’.
 
ARCHEOLOGY COLLECTION
 
Archeological researches conducted in Morbihan since the 19th century, have revealed a rich property… The finest objects are exhibited today at the History Museum, following a chronological course.
 
DISCOVERING A WORK OF ART
 
Zoom on a work exhibited at the museum, chosen for its original and outstanding character.
‘Découvrir une oeuvre’ is the occasion to stop at a painting, an engraving, a sculpture, an object, revealed by a possible interpretation.
 
This month : Portrait of Jules LEROY by Jean-Jacques HENNER, Portrait session directed by Jeanne RONGIER. (The articles are can be uploaded on pdf format)

 

EVENTS TO COME 

CHARLES BELLE AT THE ‘MUSEUM DES BEAUX-ARTS’

From July, 4th to October, 18th, 2009

The work of the painter Charles Belle, based on the vegetal world, isexpressed on monumental and often impressive formats.

 
PIERRE ALECHINSKY AT THE ‘MUSEUM DES BEAUX-ARTS’
 

From November, 6th to January, 31st, 2010

Pierre ALECHINSKY, Belgian engraver and painter, will have a place of honour at the museum from November, 6th on.

 

Musée des Beaux-Art - Place Saint-Pierre
Information : 02 97 01 63 00 www.mairie-vannes.fr
Open every day (except bank holiday) from 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Prices : 4,20 € ; reduced price : 2,60 € ; admission free for less than 18 years old and subscribers to the ‘Médiathèque de Vanne ’.
Admission free on Sundays.
‘Les Transports du Pays de Vannes ’ invite you to the museum !
Until June, 10th 2009, your transport ticket ‘TPV’ (day ticket or season ticket) gives you access, for 2,60 €, to ‘La Cohue’.
Information Infobus : 02 97 01 22 23
 
La Cohue, place Saint Pierre
Château Gaillard, rue Noé

Joint ticket giving access to both museum sites: 6 € and 4 € (reduced rate)

From 14th June to 30th September, open every day from 10:00 to 18:00 hours.

Tel: 02 97 01 63 00
 

Enjoy listening to the Museums’ stories

Every day at 16:00 hours (except for Sundays and public holidays)

Monday and Friday. Exhibition: “Collections and People”, Travellers, scholars, artists … “

Wednesday: the permanent collections of the La Cohue Fine Arts Museum -

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday: The Château Gaillard History Museum collections

Tickets Prices: joint ticket giving access to La Cohue and Château Gaillard 6 € and 4 € (reduced rate)

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