Musée du Vitrail

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The Museum of stained glass in Grand Poitiers is one of the few structures dedicated to stained glass in France. It is located in a non-cultural part of the Church of Saint Martin of Curzay-sur-Vonne, in Vienna since 1988. It has been attached to Grand Poitiers Urban Community since January 2017.

The Museum of stained glass offers an insight into the history of this ancestral art, the various manufacturing techniques and highlights the contemporary stained glass. It values glass works and artists whose modern vision of stained glass contributes to its richness and diversity. It proposes to discover the stained glass in its historical, artistic and technical dimensions through its permanent journey, its temporary exhibitions and the actions set up in its Workshop.

The permanent route presents, on the ground floor, part of the Museum's collection, religious but also civil stained glass windows from the 15th century to the present, where didactic and tactile walls, videos, tablets participate in an educational scenography accessible to each visitor. The temporary exhibitions, installed on the floor, propose to discover according to a given annual theme of creations...