2024

MUSEUM OF MECANIC ART

Art gallery exhibition space foundation and cultural center
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Inaugurated in 2011 in the premises of a former post house, the Mecanic Art Museum includes:
The Montolza Museum: 1868-1969. The first museum dedicated to the artists of Mecanic Art, an international artistic movement, born in France in the 19th century, whose works illustrate the birth and evolution of the new industrial civilization. The works presented illustrate 101 decisive years for Humanity: from 1868, illustrated with the start of the industrial race given in Paris, with the birth of the velocipeds, followed by the bicycle, the motorization of the automobile, agriculture, the navy, the aeronautics until the space conquest in 1969, when Man walked on the Moon.
The Montaut Museum: 1903-1914. The only museum dedicated to Gamy and Ernest Montaut, the 1st couple of French artists, founders of the artistic movement of Mecanic Art, presents a hundred works by Ernest Montaut, and his wife Gamy, on the themes of competition and records, made by intrepid riders of motorcycles, cars, planes, and boats, civilian and military.
The Mecanica Museum, dedicated to contemporary artists of Mecanic Art, the spiritual children of the Montaut.
The Mecanica Gallery, presents the works of contemporary artists, as well as digigraphies and art books, as in the other 3 galleries.

Note the existence of the Mecanica Gallery at the Mecanic Art Museum in Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (46), open from June to September, and two galleries open from March to October in Montcuq (46) and Sarlat (24).

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