Georges Labit Museum
Coordinates: 43 ° 35 ′ 28 " N , 1 ° 27 ′ 30" E
The Musée Georges Labit is a small museum for South , Southeast and East Asian as well as ancient Egyptian art in the French city of Toulouse . It goes back to the collection of the ethnologist Georges Labit (1862–1899), who acquired numerous art treasures on his Asia travels and made them publicly accessible from 1893 in a private museum.
The museum building is a villa in the oriental style designed by the architect Jules Calbairac (1857–1935). It is located within an Asian garden directly on the Canal du Midi in the southeast of the city.
In 1912 the museum became the property of the city. At the beginning of the 1930s, the hitherto rather mixed collection was rearranged in order to concentrate exclusively on Asian art. In 1948 the city's Egyptological collection was transferred to the Musée Georges Labit.
The pieces on display include numerous Bodhisattva and Buddha statues and Chinese porcelain . The highlights of the Egyptian collection are the (so far not clearly dated ) mummy of the 35-year-old woman In-Imen-nay.s-Nebout, including the sarcophagus, and the Book of the Dead in the name of Ta-net-Imen ( Papyrus Varille ) .
In a pavilion on the edge of the garden of the museum there is an attached specialist library with around 1500 works.
Web links
- Official websites: Cultures Toulouse , Musées Midi-Pyrenees , Toulouse Tourisme , Ministère de la Culture
- Information on the Egyptian collection: L'Egypte de Nikopol , ladepeche.fr: La momie, vedette du musée Labit , March 6, 2008 , listing of the entire collection (with pictures)