Museum of Fine Arts, Besancon. The musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie in the French city of Besançon is the oldest public museum in France.
It was set up in 1694, nearly a century before the Louvre became a public museum. The collections of the musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon are divided in three categories: archaeology, painting, and drawing cabinet.
The Egyptian collection includes the mummies of Seramon, a royal scribe who lived in the end of the 21st Dynasty, and of Ankhpakhered, Amon's artist and son of a priest of the 26th Dynasty but also a series of statuettes representing gods, ushabtis, etc. An important prehistoric collection includes objects of the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
The most important archaeology collection belongs to the Gallo-Roman period. It includes mosaics, other objects found during digs in the town, and the bronze statue of a bull with three horns from Avrigney.
The medieval collection includes statues, stone sarcophagus and other relics. The musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon is home to one of the largest drawing cabinets of France thanks to its collection of over 5,500 works from European schools dating from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 20th century. Artists present in the collection include Federico Barocci, Tintoretto, Annibale Carracci, Tiepolo for Italian works of the 15th to 18th centuries; Dürer, Rubens, Jaco
It was set up in 1694, nearly a century before the Louvre became a public museum. The collections of the musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon are divided in three categories: archaeology, painting, and drawing cabinet.
The Egyptian collection includes the mummies of Seramon, a royal scribe who lived in the end of the 21st Dynasty, and of Ankhpakhered, Amon's artist and son of a priest of the 26th Dynasty but also a series of statuettes representing gods, ushabtis, etc. An important prehistoric collection includes objects of the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age.
The most important archaeology collection belongs to the Gallo-Roman period. It includes mosaics, other objects found during digs in the town, and the bronze statue of a bull with three horns from Avrigney.
The medieval collection includes statues, stone sarcophagus and other relics. The musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon is home to one of the largest drawing cabinets of France thanks to its collection of over 5,500 works from European schools dating from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 20th century. Artists present in the collection include Federico Barocci, Tintoretto, Annibale Carracci, Tiepolo for Italian works of the 15th to 18th centuries; Dürer, Rubens, Jaco
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