MUSEUM OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PERIGORD (MAAP)
Museum of Art and Archaeology with collections from outside Europe, including sacred objects and Gallo-Roman artefacts.
The Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie du Périgord, founded in 1835, often abbreviated to MAAP, is the oldest municipal museum in the Dordogne department. It presents, on more than 2,000 m² of permanent exhibitions, one tenth of the works that the museum owns, attached to the remains of human occupation in the Périgord, to local, French and European artistic creation.
In the East wing, after a quick tribute to the museum's generous donors, you will admire the collections outside Europe with sacred objects, a link between the visible and the invisible. Upstairs is the famous Prehistory section, which alone has long made the museum's international reputation. A pleiad of carved flints, fossil skeletons, painted or engraved blocks are offered to the visitor.
In the cloister, a garden created in the 19th century, links up with the west wing. Its design gives way to the presentation and study of lapidary collections from the Gallo-Roman, medieval and Renaissance periods. It houses the remains of buildings from Périgueux and the Dordogne that have now disappeared, notably Merovingian and Carolingian sarcophagi and tombstones from the 13th and 14th centuries.
The west wing is devoted to the fine arts. Let yourself be guided through this colourful chronological tour, to discover paintings by artists from the Périgord, France, Flanders and Italy. Porcelain works from Limoges, China and Delft are also featured.
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