Musée Jean-Léon Gérôme

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The Jean-Léon-Gérôme Museum, known as the Georges Garret Museum until 2024, is a museum of archaeology and fine arts located in Vesoul in eastern France (Haute-Saône). Created in 1882, the museum was originally dedicated to fine arts. Located in a chapel in the convent of the Annonciades, the museum is developing rapidly, thanks in particular to the donations of bourgeois and Vesulian painters.

In 1938, the museum was transferred to the city hall buildings. Following important archaeological discoveries on the grounds of the department, an archaeology section was opened in 1964. In the early 1980s, the museum was transferred to the former Ursulines convent, which was renovated for this purpose.

Today[Since when?], the museum exhibits several hundred works located in fourteen rooms (nine art halls and five archaeology halls), spread over two levels. The establishment includes a rich collection of funerary steles as well as the most important world artistic collection of the Vesulian painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme and his disciples who have formed what is today called "the Upper Sahon school" (Dagnan-Boveret, Muenier, Courtois, Prinet). Museum...