Musée Bernard-d'Agesci

Over het museum

The museum is housed in a building designed by the architect Georges Lasseron, first conceived as a girls’ secondary school. The school opened in 1897, was renamed the Lycée Jean Macé a year later, and served as a school until 1993. Its façade is decorated with faience and terracotta, which is rare for a public building.

In 1995 the town decided to bring together collections that had until then been kept in separate sites, notably those of the natural history museum and the fine arts museum. After more than ten years of planning, the museum opened in June 2006. It is named after Bernard d’Agesci (1756–1829), a painter, sculptor, architect and landscape designer born in Niort.

The route extends from the ground floor to the second floor. It includes paintings and sculptures, objects linked to teaching and science, natural history collections, as well as antique musical instruments and Parthenay faience.

Hoogtepunten

• Paintings from the 16th to the 18th centuries, including portraits by Nattier and Van Loo
• Room devoted to Bernard d’Agesci and his painting La Justice (1794)
• Auguste Tolbecque salon and luthiers’ instruments
• Parthenay faience from the late 19th century
• Natural history collections, from seabirds to fossils
• Garden with marble statues and a large hall with the Apollo Belvedere

Vaste collectie

• Beaux-arts – Gothic ivories, enamels, paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries, and a room devoted to Bernard d’Agesci on the first floor.
• Histoire naturelle – Seabirds, fossils from the region, animal skeletons and a diorama of local wildlife.
• Salon Tolbecque, faïence de Parthenay et peintres régionaux – On the second floor: a 19th-century music salon, luthiers’ instruments, Parthenay faience, silverware from the Deux-Sèvres and regional painters.

Opgericht

2006

Beheerder

Niort Agglo (Musées de Niort Agglo)

Bezoekers per jaar

ca. 19.171

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Gratis toegang: First Sunday of every month

Free admission, on proof, also for members of the Amis des Musées de Niort, recipients of the RSA living in the agglomeration and certain professionals. Payment by cash, card, cheque or Chèques-Vacances.

Toegankelijkheid

• Rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift
• Aangepast toilet: geen informatie
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats: geen informatie
• Hulphonden welkom: geen informatie
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal: geen informatie
• Audiodescriptie: geen informatie

All areas are accessible to people with reduced mobility. A lift serves the first and second floors, and wheelchairs are available at reception.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour
• Verschoonruimte
• Speeltuin / speelhoek
• Kinderfeestjes

Activities during school holidays (2 hours with a visit, workshop and snack, 12 children maximum, by reservation) and birthday parties for ages 6 to 12. Children are given a mediation kit. The relaxation area has a play corner with coloured pencils, and a changing table is in the ground-floor toilets.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd.

Service & horeca

• Museumwinkel
• Garderobe

Shop at reception with catalogues, postcards, jewellery reproductions, figurines and minerals. Free, supervised cloakroom. Relaxation area on the ground floor with hot and cold drink vending machines.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

• Ruimtes te huur
• Privéfeesten
• Zakelijke evenementen

Tot 100 personen.

Auditorium with 96 seats, a relaxation area for 100 standing guests, a large hall and a courtyard. Available for hire by associations, companies, training organisations and private individuals.

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