Rheims Museum of Fine Arts. The Museum of Fine Arts is a fine arts museum in Reims, France.
Antoine Ferrand de Monthelon, founder of the school of drawings, bequeaths in 1752 his collection to the city of Reims. Organizer and first curator of the Museum of Reims, Nicolas Bergeat safeguarded works of art seized from the Catholic institutions in Reims and first official deposit was recorded on 10 Vendémiaire, Year II in the former hospice of Magneuses.
The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1794 with objects seized during the French Revolution and was first housed in the city's town hall. Throughout the 19th century its collections grew via purchases and bequests, until in 1908 the city of Reims decided to buy a separate building to house it. Their choice fell on the former Saint-Denis Abbey of Reims located in vicinity of Reims Cathedral.
Abbey construction was started in the 9th century by Archbishop of Reims Fulk on the site of a former cemetery. It had then undergone several uses since the Revolution, as the French Directory's district headquarters, a store for artworks from sold-off churches, in 1814 and 1815 a barracks for Russian occupation troops, and finally in 1822 as a grand seminary.
It was abandoned as a seminary in 1906 after the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State and the museum moved into it. It was then renovated, with the museum's rooms partly corresponding to t
Antoine Ferrand de Monthelon, founder of the school of drawings, bequeaths in 1752 his collection to the city of Reims. Organizer and first curator of the Museum of Reims, Nicolas Bergeat safeguarded works of art seized from the Catholic institutions in Reims and first official deposit was recorded on 10 Vendémiaire, Year II in the former hospice of Magneuses.
The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1794 with objects seized during the French Revolution and was first housed in the city's town hall. Throughout the 19th century its collections grew via purchases and bequests, until in 1908 the city of Reims decided to buy a separate building to house it. Their choice fell on the former Saint-Denis Abbey of Reims located in vicinity of Reims Cathedral.
Abbey construction was started in the 9th century by Archbishop of Reims Fulk on the site of a former cemetery. It had then undergone several uses since the Revolution, as the French Directory's district headquarters, a store for artworks from sold-off churches, in 1814 and 1815 a barracks for Russian occupation troops, and finally in 1822 as a grand seminary.
It was abandoned as a seminary in 1906 after the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State and the museum moved into it. It was then renovated, with the museum's rooms partly corresponding to t
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