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Museum of Art and Archeology of Périgord
Summary
The Museum of Art and Archeology of Périgord, often abbreviated MAAP, is a municipal museum located in Périgueux. It is the oldest museum in the Dordogne department and it includes over 2,000 square metres of permanent exhibition.
A first museum was established in 1804 in the city's Jesuit chapel by Count Wlgrin de Taillefer. In 1808, the increasing collection was moved to the Vomitorium of the arena of Périgueux and thence took the name of Vésunien Museum. Count Wlgrin de Taillefer died on February 2, 1833. In his will, he bequeathed his antiquities to Joseph de Mourcin, provided they be deposited in a museum which was to be built near the tower of Vésone, or in a museum in Paris.
In 1835, upon the proposal of the mayor of Périgueux, the Museum of antiques and objets d'art'''s collection was transferred to the chapel of the White Penitents, to the south of the cloister of the Saint-Front Cathedral. The museum took the name of "Archaeological Museum of Dordogne" in 1836 and became departmental thereafter. It was run by Joseph de Mourcin with the assistance of Abbé Audierne and Doctor Édouard Galyuntil until Mourcin's death. Doctor Galy succeeded Joseph de Mourcin upon his death. He set up the museum in its current location, in the former Augustinian convent used as a prison from 1808 to 1866, when it became in fact the museum's new site. The archaeological collection was gradually transferred there between 1869 and 1874. Michel Hardy, president of the Historical and Archaeological Society of Périgord, succeeded Édouard Galy upon his death.
In 1857, a section dedicated to the fine arts was added to the museum's archaeological nucleus. It was then the only public collection of this nature in Dordogne. Mayor Alfred Bardy-Delisle created a municipal museum for painting and sculpture in Périgueux in 1859. In 1891, upon the consistent bequeath of the Marquis de Saint-Astier of over 150 paintings (Flemish, French and Italian, from the 16th to the 19th century), the city decided to buy the old Augustinian convent, where the collection of the archaeological museum of the Dordogne department is now exhibited, and the buildings around it to create a new structure.
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