Musée des Amériques – Auch (Americas)
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After several months of building work to update disabled access and rearrange the layout of its collections, the former Jacobin Museum, renamed Musée des Amériques – Auch (The Museum of the Americas, Auch) opened its doors in October 2019. The refurbishment gave the museum the opportunity to completely rethink the display of its collections.
The Museum founded in 1793 is one of the very first museums to open in France. Today it is based within the former Jacobin convent, a building that has been occupied since the beginning of the fifteenth century up to the Revolution by the religious Dominicans, also known as the Jacobins. The museum has a large variety of collections broken up into 5 large categories :
- America : The number one collection in France dedicated to Latin American Art and the second largest collection of Pre-Columbian art after the Quai-Branly- Jacques Chirac Museum in Paris.
- Antiquities : Egyptian and Gallo Roman collections
- Art from the Middle Ages: stone statuary collection
- Art and artists from the south west: collection of Auch faience, paintings and sculptures by Gascony artists from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.
- Gascony folk art : collection of traditional costumes
Musée des Amériques – Auch (Americas)
9, rue Gilbert Bregail
32000 Auch 32000 05 62 05 74 79
Rates
- Full price : 6€
- Reduced price: from €3
- Free for children under 18 years old and the 1st week-end of each month
Opening times
Summer hours :
- From 1 April to 30 September
- Daily from 10am – 12:15pm and from 2:30pm-6pm
Winter hours :
- From 1 October to 31 December and from 1 February to 31 March
- Daily from 10am to 12:15pm and from 2pm to 5:15pm
- Closed on holidays
Closed during the month of January
Access
- The museum is located at 9 rue Gilbert Brégail. The main entrance is accessed through the gardens.
- Nearest parking at Quai Lissagaray (300m).