Musée d'Aquitaine

Museum of Aquitaine
	Location within France
Established	1963
Location	20 cours Pasteur; 33000 Bordeaux France
Coordinates	44.83564°N 0.57497°W
Visitors	111,919 (2003) 88,738 (2004) 99,880 (2005) 101,897 (2006) 93,661 (2007)[1]
Website	Official site

The Museum of Aquitaine (French: Musée d'Aquitaine) is a collection of objects and documents from the history of Bordeaux and Aquitaine.

Location

In the center of Bordeaux, close to Tour Pey-Berland and St. Andrew's Cathedral, the museum is accessible by line B of the tramway de Bordeaux from station Musée d'Aquitaine.

Collections

The different collections include more than 70,000 pieces. They trace the history of Bordeaux and Aquitaine from Prehistory to today. 5,000 pieces of art from Africa and Oceania also testify to the harbor history of the city.

Spaces dedicaded to slave trade

The museum has permanent collections and temporary exhibitions. The permanent collections are on two floors. On the ground floor are pieces on Prehistory, Protohistory, the Roman Epoch, the Middle Ages and the Modern Era. At level 1, there are eighteenth century pieces (Atlantic trade and slavery), world cultures, nineteenth and twentieth centuries (Bordeaux port-e-du monde, 1800-1939).

In 2009, the Aquitaine Museum opened new permanent rooms dedicated to the role of Bordeaux in the slave trade.

Rooms devoted to the nineteenth were reopened in February 2014.

Notable Pieces[2]

The Venus of Laussel
The Gallic Gold torque
The cenotaph of Michel de Montaigne
Bernini, Bust of Cardinal Escoubleau de Sourdis
Bronze Statue of Hercules

Venus of Laussel
Gallic Gold torque
Cenotaph of Michel de Montaigne
Statue of Hercules
Fon fetish, Musée d'Aquitaine.
Stained-glass window with the arms of Bordeaux[3]

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References

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[1] Veille Info Tourisme Archived 2010-03-14 at the Wayback Machine, p.107

[2] ttp://www.musee-aquitaine-bordeaux.fr/en/highlights

[3] ttp://www.musee-aquitaine-bordeaux.fr/en/article/stained-glass-window-arms-bordeaux