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Art Museum Attractions In Hauts-de-France

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Hauts-de-France is a region of France created by the territorial reform of French Regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. The new region came into existence on 1 January 2016, after the regional elections in December 2015. France's Conseil d'État approved Hauts-de-France as the name of the region on 28 September 2016, effective 30 September 2016.The region covers an area of more than 31,813 km2 , and has a population of 5,973,098. It borders Normandy, Grand Est, Île-de-France, Belgium and the United Kingdom via the English Channel.
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Art Museum Attractions In Hauts-de-France

  • 2. Le Palais Des Beaux Arts de Lille Lille
    Le Consortium is a contemporary art center based in Dijon founded by Xavier Douroux & Franck Gautherot, among others, from the association Le Coin du Miroir . The center was run by Douroux, in collaboration with Gautherot and Eric Troncy. In 1982, The consortium was awarded the Art Center label, and moved to an old 600 m2 appliance store in downtown Dijon and in 1983, Le Coin du Miroir, À La Limite and Déjà Vu joined and became a single entity. In 1991, Le Consortium expanded by moving to a 4,000 m2 factory on the outskirts of Dijon. In 1996, Troncy joined Le Consortium as co-director and in 2000, Seungduk Kim joined as co-curator and director of international development. In 2009, Le Consortium launched an office on Hoxton Street in London, directed by Sophie Claudel and in 2011, a new...
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  • 3. Musee des Beaux-Arts Valenciennes Valenciennes
    The musée des beaux-arts de Valenciennes is a municipal museum in the French town of Valenciennes. Its collections originated as the collection of the Académie valenciennoise de peinture et de sculpture. It opened to the public for the first time in 1801 and was moved into the town hall in 1834. A competition to design a new building was held at the end of the 19th century, won by Paul Dusart. The new building was opened on 27 June 1909 and in 1995 was totally renovated and the display space expanded, with the addition of a basement displaying archaeological remains and artefacts. As well as paintings, it includes several sculptures by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux , born in the town, as well as a prints and drawings department and
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  • 5. St Vaast Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras Arras
    The Abbey of Saint-Vaast was a Benedictine monastery situated in Arras, département of Pas-de-Calais, France. The abbey was founded in 667. Saint Vedast, or Vaast was the first bishop of Arras and later also bishop of Cambrai, and was buried in the old cathedral at Arras. In 667 Saint Auburt, seventh bishop of Arras, began to build an abbey for Benedictine monks on the site of a little chapel which Saint Vedast had erected in honour of Saint Peter. Vedast's relics were transferred to the new abbey, which was completed by Auburt's successor and generously endowed by King Theuderic III, who together with his wife was afterwards buried there. The Abbey of St. Vaast was of great importance amongst the monasteries of the Low Countries. It was exempt from episcopal jurisdiction and maintained i...
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  • 8. Musee de Picardie Amiens
    The Musée de Picardie is the main museum of Amiens and Picardy, in France. It is located at 48, rue de la République. Its collections stretch from prehistory to the 19th century and form one of the largest regional museums in France. The museum was founded as the musée Napoléon in 1802 . However, the museum building, is later, being purpose-built as a regional museum between 1855 and 1867. The Second Empire style building was designed by architects Henri Parent and Arthur-Stanislas Diet. It was built thanks to action by the Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, keen to give the city somewhere to house the collections the society had gathered over decades.
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  • 12. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais Calais
    The Musée des beaux-arts d'Arras is located in the old Abbey of St. Vaast in Arras, in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.
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