Museum of Grenoble

About

The Musée de Grenoble, called Musée de Peinture et de Sculpture de Grenoble until the 1980s, was created on 16 February 1798 by the drawing professor Louis-Joseph Jay. The main museum of art and antiques of the city of Grenoble, it has been located since 1994 Place de Lavalette, at the site of a former Franciscan convent built in 1218 and whose site will become military at the end of the sixteenth century. It is one of the first French art museums by the size and balance of its collections of ancient, modern and contemporary art.

Divided into 57 permanent exhibition rooms and a vast sculpture garden, most of the artistic disciplines are represented and its collections embrace a period between ancient Egypt and contemporary art. However, thanks to the action of one of its interwar curators, it is considered the first modern art museum in France. In addition, its temporary exhibition rooms allow it to host exhibitions exceeding for some 100,000 visitors, making the place an important hub of French artistic life.

It also has the peculiarity...