Musée d'art et d'archéologie du Périgord

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The Perigord Museum of Art and Archaeology, often abbreviated as MAAP, is a municipal museum located in Périgueux, the oldest in the Dordogne department. The museum founded in 1835 is mainly dedicated to archaeology, fine arts and non-European ethnography (Africa, Oceania). It presents, over 2,000 m2 of permanent exhibitions, one tenth of the 45,000 works that the museum possesses, attached to the remains of the human occupation in Périgord, to local, French and European artistic creation. It is protected by historical monuments.