Musée du Pays Châtillonnais
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Châtillon-sur-Seine , France 
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Archeology
Museum
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| architect | Antoine Stinco |
| opening | 4th July 2009 |
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Musée du Pays Châtillonnais - Trésor de Vix is the new name of the archaeological museum of Châtillon-sur-Seine ( Côte-d'Or ). It was founded at the end of the 19th century and is administered by the Communauté de communes du Pays Châtillonnais .
history
The Société archéologique et historique du Châtillonnais opened its first museum in 1882, it was intended as a regional museum. In the second half of the 19th century, as everywhere in France, interest in archeology grew . It has enjoyed great popularity in the region since the great excavations that Napoleon III. organized on the Alesia site , 80 km from Châtillon.
Hotel Philandrier
In 1928 the archaeological society in the city center, a city palace in the Renaissance style, the Hôtel Philandrier , named after the 16th century born in Châtillon architect Guillaume Philandrier . There are many ruins in the region - such as the Gallo-Roman settlement Vertillum , about fifteen kilometers away, or the oppidum on Mont Lassois - which have produced a large number of objects. In 1950 the museum was expanded and relocated to the Hôtel Philandrier with an area of 400 m². Three years later, the discovery of the Vix tomb , which is of outstanding importance for its rich furnishings and historical value, brought the museum international fame. Thanks to the larger area, all the treasures of the site could be recorded, otherwise they would probably have been transferred to the National Archaeological Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye .
Notre-Dame de Châtillon monastery
In 2009, the museum left the now too small Hôtel Philandrier and moved into the former Notre-Dame de Châtillon Abbey , which was founded in the 13th century by Bernard de Clairvaux and which previously housed a hospital and a home for the elderly . It is a building complex that was rebuilt in the 17th and 18th centuries by the architect Antoine Stinco and now covers 2000 m². On this occasion, the museum has reorganized its collections, which now cover the entire history of the region from the early days to the 18th century.
Collections
- Prehistory: many individual finds, finds from the excavations at Mont Lassois and the La Grande Baume cave near Balot .
- Early history: the tombs of Sainte-Colombe-sur-Seine , the treasure of Vix with the famous bronze crater and the deposits of the Douix spring .
- Gallo-Roman world: the town of Vertillum , the shrines of Essarois (and its ex-voto , a votive offering discovered in 2009, depicting a case of human polydactyly ) and Tremblois in Villiers-le-Duc .
- Middle Ages : art from Fontenay and Notre-Dame de Châtillon abbeys , relics of Saint Vorelius
- Renaissance to the 18th century: numerous objects of daily life, trade and metalworking
- Memorial room for the Maréchal Marmont, who was born in Châtillon .
Gallo-Roman collection
Lebes from Sainte-Colombe .
See also
Web links
- Official website (English, French)
- Musée du Pays Châtillonnais on the Association of Municipalities website (French)
Remarks
- ↑ New opening in the Notre-Dame de Châtillon Abbey
- ↑ Press release from the museum. (PDF) January 2009, archived from the original on August 14, 2014 ; accessed on April 25, 2018 (French).