Musee de Picardie. The Musée de Picardie is the main museum of Amiens and Picardy, in France.
It is located at 48, rue de la République, Amiens. Its collections stretch from prehistory to the 19th century and form one of the largest regional museums in France.
The museum is closed until the end of 2019 for building work. The museum was founded as the musée Napoléon in 1802.
However, the museum building, is later, being purpose-built as a regional museum between 1855 and 1867. The Second Empire style building was designed by architects Henri Parent and Arthur-Stanislas Diet.
It was built thanks to action by the Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, keen to give the city somewhere to house the collections the society had gathered over decades. Housed in the basement from ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, with around 400 objects, mainly derived from the collection of the painter Albert Maignan and from national collections placed here the archaeology of Picardy 12th to 16th centuries, with the main pieces being the Puys d'Amiens, masterpieces of Gothic art from Amiens Cathedral. French and foreign painters from 17th to 20th centuries, with artists such as Francis Bacon, François Boucher, ean Siméon Chardin, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, hilippe de Champaigne, Jusepe de Ribera, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Luca Giordano, El Greco, Francesco Guardi, Frans Hals, Jacob Jordaens, Joan Miró,
It is located at 48, rue de la République, Amiens. Its collections stretch from prehistory to the 19th century and form one of the largest regional museums in France.
The museum is closed until the end of 2019 for building work. The museum was founded as the musée Napoléon in 1802.
However, the museum building, is later, being purpose-built as a regional museum between 1855 and 1867. The Second Empire style building was designed by architects Henri Parent and Arthur-Stanislas Diet.
It was built thanks to action by the Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, keen to give the city somewhere to house the collections the society had gathered over decades. Housed in the basement from ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, with around 400 objects, mainly derived from the collection of the painter Albert Maignan and from national collections placed here the archaeology of Picardy 12th to 16th centuries, with the main pieces being the Puys d'Amiens, masterpieces of Gothic art from Amiens Cathedral. French and foreign painters from 17th to 20th centuries, with artists such as Francis Bacon, François Boucher, ean Siméon Chardin, Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp, hilippe de Champaigne, Jusepe de Ribera, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Luca Giordano, El Greco, Francesco Guardi, Frans Hals, Jacob Jordaens, Joan Miró,
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