The rich collections of the archaeological company(society) of Montpelier
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The exceptional frame of this museum would be worth to him only the visit : right in the heart of the Badge, just a step from the place of the Comedy, the museum from the Languedoc is installed(settled) in the vast and magnificent Hotel of the Treasurers of France.
Former(ancient) hotel Jacques Coeur, bequeathed to the archaeological company(society) by Henri de Lunaret, it was classified ancient memorial in 1931, and was the object since 1987 of important works of restoration and development.
The wealth of the presented collections is as high as the case.
Very varied they cover a wide piece of the history: prehistory and protohistoire, archaeology (Egypt, Greece, Rome, world Celtic and Gallo-Romain), medieval art (together exceptional of Romanic sculptures), ornamental art of the XVI-th in the XIX-th century ; ceramic of Montpelier
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