Musee d'Art et d'Archeologie du Perigord. The Périgord Museum of Art and Archeology, often abbreviated MAAP, is a municipal museum located in Périgueux, the oldest in the Dordogne department. The museum founded in 1835 is mainly devoted to archeology, fine arts and non-European ethnography. It presents, over more than 2,000 m 2 of permanent exhibitions, one tenth of the 45,000 works that the museum has, attached to the vestiges of human occupation in Périgord, to local, French and European artistic creation. A first museum was created by Count Wlgrin de Taillefer in the Jesuit chapel in 1804. In 1808, the collection increasing, it is installed in the vomitory of the arenas of Périgueux and takes the name of Vesun Museum. Count Wlgrin de Taillefer dies onFebruary 2, 1833. In his will, he bequeathed his antiquities to Joseph de Mourcin by providing that they be deposited in a museum which should be built near the tower of Vésone, or in a museum in Paris if it were impossible. In 1835, on the proposal of the mayor of Périgueux, the renowned collection Museum of Antiquities and Art Objects was transferred to the buildings of the Chapel of the White Penitents, to the south of the cloister of the Cathedral of Saint Front. The premises are fitted out by Louis Catoire. The museum takes the name of Archaeological Museum of the Dordogne Department in 1836 and becomes departmental. It was directed until his death by Joseph de Mourcin assisted by Father Audierne and Doctor Édouard Galy. Doctor Galy succeeds Joseph de Mourcin at his death. He bought from the department and went to install the museum in its current site, in the former Augustinian convent, used as a prison since 1808, when it was liberated in 1866. Archaeological collections were progressively transferred there between 1869 and 1874. Michel Hardy, president of the Historical and Archaeological Society of Périgord, succeeds Édouard Galy at his death. In 1857, is assistant to archaeological nucleus, a section with fine art works of local French and European of the XVI th century to today. It was then the only public collection of this nature in Dordogne. Mayor Alfred Bardy-Delisle created a municipal museum of painting and sculpture in Périgueux in 1859. In 1891, following the very important legacy of the Marquis de Saint-Astier over 150 paintings, Flemish, French and Italian, from the XVI th to the XIX thcentury, the city decided to buy the old Augustinian convent, where the collections of the archaeological museum of the Dordogne department are on display, and the buildings around it to build a new building. On June 27, 1891, Gérard de Fayolle became curator of the municipal museum. In 1893, Gérard de Fayolle was appointed curator of the archaeological museum of the Dordogne department, replacing Michel Hardy who has been curator of this museum since 1887. The two museums were then located in the old buildings of the Augustinian convent. In 1895, the General Council ceded to the city the archaeological collections of the departmental museum and made a significant financial contribution for the construction of a new museum. The architectural competition was launched in 1893. The current museum was built from 1895 to 1898 on plans by Limoges architect Charles Planckaert. The first stone was laid by the President of the Republic Félix Faure. It was laid out for the first time from 1898 to 1903. In 1903, Gérard de Fayolle was appointed curator of the new Perigord art and archeology museum which he installed and organized with his assistant, Maurice Féaux, who had been the l assistant of Michel Hardy in the organization of the collections of the archaeological museum of the department, in the new building of the museum inaugurated on July 14, 1903. It is still the heir in its current organization of the history of the formation of collections. Thus, the first nucleus is predominantly archaeological because it was built around the safeguard of Gallo-Roman vestiges of Périgueux from 1804. This fund was quickly expanded with collections of geology, mineralogy, prehistory and parts of medieval times stemming from research in Périgord. There were also added, in a spirit of universal knowledge and educational concern, archaeological collections from North Africa, Greece and Italy. In addition, the discovery of new cultures through colonization and the emergence ofprehistory led to a study movement called comparative ethnography, consisting mainly in bringing together know-how, in particular that having completely disappeared in Europe, the size of flint. Thus have been collected in France, England, Germany and Périgueux, pieces from Oceania, the Americas, Africa and Asia. In 2020, the museum was listed as a historic monument.