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Musée de Picardie

Amiens, Somme, France

The record

Designation
Historic monument, classified (classé)
Protection
classé MH
Extent of protection
Le musée en totalité (cad. VE 121) : classement par arrêté du 21 mai 2012
Protection dates
2012/05/21 : classé MH
Type
musée
Main period of construction
2e moitié 19e siècle
Architect or builder
Parent Henri (architecte), Diet Arthur-Stanislas (architecte), Ricquier Emile (architecte), Puvis de Chavannes (peintre), Barrias (peintre), Le Tellier (peintre), Borely Charles (peintre), Roze Albert (sculpteur), Cranck (peintre), Feragu (peintre)
Ownership
propriété de la commune
Address
48 rue de la République
Commune
Amiens
Département
Somme
Region
Hauts-de-France
Country
France
Coordinates
49.89062, 2.29513
Mérimée reference
PA00116077

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1825 map "V.1:1-5: I: Frankreich. DEP: 6. Der Somme. 7. Pas de Calais. 8. des Nordens" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Ce musée est connu comme le premier musée des Beaux-Arts construit en France en tant que tel, un bâtiment à caractère muséal, repris ailleurs comme un modèle. L'Etat, en la personne de Napoléon III, a offert le terrain et a permis la mise en place du système de son financement atypique grâce à des loteries et non aux deniers publics. Décors par Lequesne, Duthoit (Aimée et Edmont), Cauccemont, Puvis de Chavannes.

English translation

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This museum is known as the first museum of Fine Arts built in France as such, a building with museum character, taken up elsewhere as a model. The State, in the person of Napoleon III, offered the land and enabled the establishment of its atypical financing system through lotteries and not through public funds. Decorations by Lequesne, Duthoit (Aimée and Edmont), Cauccemont, Puvis de Chavannes.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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