Museum of the French Revolution

About

The Musée de la Révolution française is a museum located in Vizille, France and managed by the Isère department. Inaugurated on 13 July 1984 in view of the commemorations of the bicentenary of the Revolution, it is housed in the castle where the meeting of the general states of Dauphiné was held on 21 July 1788 and remains the only museum entirely dedicated to the period of the French Revolution. Among his most famous pieces are The French Republic of Jean-Baptiste Wicar, the first well-known representation of the French Republic, The painter David drawing Marie-Antoinette led to the torture of Van den Bussche, or Capet rose up!

by Émile Mascré. The museum pursues an active policy of acquiring new works, including English artists, and organizes international symposia around the theme of the French Revolution, as well as a temporary exhibition every year. Integrated into the Vizille estate, which has a long history of artistic conservation, it also houses a documentation centre on the French revolutionary period which, as the acquisitions, has given it an international reputation.