VALLEY MUSEUM - LA SAPINIÈRE
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Museum featuring collections of fine art, Indochinese highland costumes and Mexican art
Here, visitors will understand the links between Barcelonnette and Mexico, ever since the Arnaud brothers settled there in 1804. Visitors can admire superb fine art collections, orientalist canvases by travel painters Jean Caire and Marie Tonoir, objects and photographs brought back by emigrant-collector Emile Chabrand from his trip around the world (1882), ceramics from Chililico (Mexico) donated by Guy and Claude Stresser-Péan, and costumes from the Indochinese highlands donated by the Louppe-Gassier family. The Musée de la Vallée in the Villa de la Sapinière will undergo a complete overhaul in late 2019, and its museography has been completely renewed for 2020. New features include two major themes: the Piedmontese in the Barcelonnette region and the Colporteurs of the Ubaye valley. Added to this is a small archaeological treasure trove, with the entire Gleize Donation comprising 82 pieces (mainly bronzes), accompanied by 17 previously unpublished photographs from the Olivier de Saint-Marcel Esseric collection dating from 1890. One room is devoted to Barcelonnettes in the Americas from 1805 to 2014. The pink room also features "1,000 small masterpieces from Mexico": Aztec statuary, folk art, colonial art and modern Mexican art. As for the Chabran room, where you can discover the traveler and naturalist's collections of animals brought back from his peregrinations in Argentina and Mexico.
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