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 Mou
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 Mou
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