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a major French Art archive The museum, known as the ‘Little Louvre’, has reopened after 14 years.
The Musée Bonnet-Héleu closed in 2011 for a major renovation. Located in Bayonne, a city in the Basque Country, the Museum of Fine Arts houses an extensive collection of French Old Masters, considered its rival. louvre‘S.
Established in 1891, the museum has been refurbished at a cost of €35m (£30m) and officially reopened on 27 November.
It is now home to approximately 7,000 works of art, ranging from antiquity to the 20th century. michelangeloRembrandt, Rubens and Goya.
Bayonne was home to a new generation of artists at the end of the 19th century and the museum is named after two painters, Léon Bonnet and Jean Helleu.
“Women artists are among our priorities for future acquisitions,” said Helen Farron, the museum’s head of collections. art newspaper,
3,000 square meters. The display area has been doubled in size, with major restorations including the restoration of Giandomenico Facchina’s mosaic floors, the diamond-shaped roof of the central courtyard, and a neighboring school building.
A café, gift shop, storage space, restoration studio, offices, exhibition rooms, a research center and a study room for paintings are also part of the new space.
The museum expects to double the number of visitors before the renovation to between 60,000–80,000 per year.
“Emotion is key to our museum experience, we want it to feel welcoming, not intimidating,” Ferron said.
The museum has several reduced and free ticket options, including free admission for art students, job seekers, benefit recipients, children and people with disabilities.
Full price tickets cost €9 (£7.90), with free entry for those aged 18-26 at a reduced price of €6 (£5.30).
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