Musée du Chablais

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The Chablais Museum is a museum located in Thonon in Haute-Savoie. It was founded in 1863 following a public appeal by a volunteer society. The foundation of the fund was supported by the brothers James and Louis Revon, naturalist in Geneva and curator of the Annecy Museum. The collections are then presented at the town hall and are very varied: minerals, naturalized animals and archaeological objects from the excavations of the port. This universal orientation continues with the ornithological collection left by Dr Dépierre in 1878 and the deposit of moulds and prints of the Louvre in 1886 to complete them with an industrial museum aimed at developing the taste of beauty and the love of remunerative work in the working class. He also received the monetary treasure of Vinzier and Tully.

Léon Quiblier was the head of the museum for 65 years from 1888 to 1953. Although looted during the First World War, the acquisition policy continued and the museum settled in 1928 on the second floor of the Palais d'Antioche in three rooms (room 1: birds, room 2: shells and mammals, room 3: geology...