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Very few regions possess as many treasures as the museums of the Gard
Provençal. It has four museums devoted to painting and sculpture,
another to archeology, and another to Mediterranean pottery. The first
five are under the direction of a departmental curator. According
to this curator, le Gard is unique in its management of collections
of different statuses: Four are municipal, and one is regional. Each
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The Albert André
Museum in Bagnols sur Cèze exhibits modern and contemporary
paintings (Matisse, Renoir, Bonnard...) The Léon Alègre
Museum, also in Bagnols sur Cèze, is devoted to archeology.
In Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, the Pierre de Luxembourg
Museum, housed in a cardinal's magnificent palace, boasts a
wide range of Proveçale paintings from the 16th and 17th
centuries, as well as two masterpieces: the 15th-century "Coronation
of the Virgin" and an ivory sculpture of the Virgin Mary
from the early 14th century. |
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In the beautiful Maison des Chevaliers,
located in Pont-Saint-Esprit, you can see the Sacred
Art Museum of the Gard, which presents a cultural approach
to Christian sentiment in the West. In the same town, the Paul Raymond
Museum brings together several municipal collections and presents
a Benn exhibition.
The village of Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, as its name indicates,
has a long tradition of transforming the earth. It houses the
Mediterranean Pottery Museum, which
presents a beautiful collection from both shores of the Mediterranean. |
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