Musée de l'Amérique francophone
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| place | Quebec |
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| opening | 1806/1983 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 60,221 (2016/17) |
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The Musée de l'Amérique francophone (called Musée de l'Amérique française until 2013 ) is a museum in the city of Québec . It is located on Rue Sainte-Famille in the upper town , in an outbuilding of the Séminaire de Québec . The museum belongs to the Les Musées de la civilization network and deals with French culture on the North American continent. It manages the collection of the seminar, which was first presented to the public in 1806, which is why it is considered Canada's oldest museum .
history
The Séminaire de Québec , founded in 1663, began building a collection immediately after it was founded, which was initially primarily of a religious nature. Since Bishop François de Montmorency-Laval was a member of the government of New France, the seminary collection included an archive from the outset that is now invaluable for historical research.
A scientific collection was created in the early 19th century and was first opened to the public on October 22, 1806. In the mid-19th century, the seminary library contained more than 10,000 works in the fields of theology, literature, philosophy, science and medicine. In addition, the physical and scientific collection was suitable for teaching purposes, which in 1852 favored the establishment of the Université Laval . At that time, the seminar also had zoological , mineralogical and geological collections. Later collections in the fields of botany , religion , numismatics , ethnology and medicine were added.
The seminar has been collecting works of art since it was founded, and an art museum was opened in 1875. In the second quarter of the 20th century, the scientific and ethnological objects were considered obsolete and were gradually being stored. The public increasingly lost interest in the seminar's collections, which went largely unnoticed for several decades. This changed in 1983 with the opening of a new museum at the current location. A comprehensive systematic inventory was carried out in the 1990s . This allowed a new presentation from the point of view of French cultural history in North America. In the same year the Musée de la civilization took over the management. The part of the seminar archive, which extends from 1623 to 1800 and is managed by the museum, was included in the UNESCO World Document Heritage in 2007 due to its great historical importance .
building
The museum is located in the Jérôme-Demers pavilion , which was built in 1855 according to plans by the architect Charles Baillairgé. It originally served as a guesthouse for students of Laval University in 1901 as a convent of Dominican nuns , since 1983 as a museum building. The three-story building with an unplastered limestone facade has a rounded front facade. It adjoins a chapel that has existed since 1750, which was destroyed by fire in 1888 and rebuilt two years later. The chapel has been secluded since 1991 and also serves as an exhibition building.
Web links
- Official website (French, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual report 2016-2017. (PDF, 1.9 MB) Les Musées de la civilization, 2019, p. 23 (French).
- ↑ a b c Yves Bergeron: Collections du Séminaire de Québec: un patrimoine pour l'histoire de l'Amérique française. Encyclopédie du patrimoine culturel de l'Amérique française, accessed on November 9, 2014 (French).
- ↑ Jean-Marie Lebel: Le Vieux-Québec . Septentrion, Sillery 1997, ISBN 2-89448-083-0 , pp. 120 .
- ^ Chapelle extérieure du Séminaire de Québec. Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec, accessed on November 9, 2014 (French).
Coordinates: 46 ° 48 '50.8 " N , 71 ° 12' 23.7" W.