Sainte-Croix

= = =Welcome to Musée Sainte-Croix=

-Created in 1971 by the architect Jean Monge. -The Beaux-Arts section displays the main painting movements of the 14th and 20th centuries. -The archeology section of the museum housed in the basement has interesting Poitevin remains dating from prehistoric times to the early Middle Ages. -Modern day sculpture also has an important place with a Symbolist exhibit concerning the works of Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel. -The remarkable prehistoric engravings from the Marche Caves are distinct within the Magdalenian era. -The Neolithic era is represented by the wealth found in ancient tombs (ceramics, objects made of flint stone, axes, jewellery) and various anthropological finds. -Another section of the museum explains the history and landscapes of Poitiers and the surrounding areas by means of sculptures and paintings by local or other artists. The masterpieces in the section include: "The Siege of Poitiers" by Admiral Coligny in 1569 ( François Nautré 1619), the remarkable series of Flemish paintings donated to the Sainte Croix Abbey by the abbess Flandrine de Nassau in the 17th century and the spectacular polychrome wooden statue of the Grand'Goule dragon, sculpted by local artist Jean Gargot in 1677.
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 * October 1 to May 31 ||
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 * Open || 10:00 || 10:00 || 10:00 || 10:00 || 10:00 || 14:00 || 14:00 ||
 * Closed || 12:00 || 12:00 || 12:00 || 12:00 || 12:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 ||
 * Open || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 ||
 * Closed || 17:00 || 17:00 || 17:00 || 17:00 || 17:00 || 17:00 || 17:00 ||
 * June 1 to September 30 ||
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 * Open || 10:00 || 10:00 || 10:00 || 10:00 || 10:00 || 10:00 || 10:00 ||
 * Closed || 12:00 || 12:00 || 12:00 || 12:00 || 12:00 || 12:00 || 12:00 ||
 * Open || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 || 13:15 ||
 * Closed || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 ||
 * Closed || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 || 18:00 ||

**Always closed on:**
New Year's Day (January 1) May Day / Labor Day (May 1) 1945 Victory Day (May 8) Ascension Thursday - Christian Pentecost Monday (Whit Monday) - Christian Ashura - 10th Muharram (Death of Imam Hussein) Muslim Bastille Day - France (July 14) Assumption Day - Christian (August 15) All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1) Remembrance Day / 1918 Armistice Day (November 11) Christmas - Christian (December 25)

__**Cost:**__

 * Adult || 3.50 Euros ||
 * Group discounts || 2.50 Euros ||
 * Child 18 & under || FREE ||

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 * The museum** is **St. Croix,** by the size and quality of its funds, the first museum of the Poitou-Charentes region. Les collections sont présentées dans un bâtiment moderne conçu par l'architecte Jean Monge en 1971, édifié à l’emplacement de l'abbaye Sainte-Croix (XVIIes.). The collections are presented in a modern building designed by the architect Jean Monge in 1971, built on the site of the Holy Cross Abbey (XVIIes.).

La Préhistoire The Prehistory
Platelets La Marche Magdalenian period is a remarkable animal with its figurations and especially its human representations. The rich furniture (tools, jewelry, ceramics) from graves as Fleuré, or Puyraveau Bellefonds well evoke the "Neolithic Revolution." Plusieurs " dépôts de fondeurs " de l'Age du Bronze ont livré quantité d'objets utilitaires ou cérémoniels. Several "deposits founders of the Bronze Age had delivered quantity utilitarian objects or ceremonial. . From the Iron Age I include pottery decorated anthropomorphic Camp Allaric and luxurious tomb of Mia.

L'Antiquité Antiquity
Some substructures stored on site remind visitors that the district //Limonum// undoubtedly capital of Aquitaine in the second century, continued to be held in antiquity. Terminals military, sculptures indigenous epitaphs, honorary inscriptions found in the wall built in the third-fourth century nous introduisent dans la //civitas pictonum// (la cité des pictons). Us into the //civitas pictonum// (the city of pictons). It finds under the eye protector deities (Minerva, Apollo, Mercury), religion and daily life of the Gallo-Romans. The funeral rites are evoked by the magnificent tomb of aristocratic Antran (symbol of the romanization of Poitou) and a glass collection from necropolises poitevines

Le Moyen Age The Middle Ages
From late antiquity and the early Middle Ages demonstrate some elements of sarcophagi historiated encountered in Poitiers or its surroundings. A series of sculptures from churches poitevines recalls the extraordinary outreach workshops novels in Poitou. From the Middle Ages date an exceptional vase-blue glass reliquary, discovered in the famous abbey of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (single specimen preserved in Europe).

Histoire régionale Regional History
The history of Poitiers is raised by several artists including poitevins François Nautré which depicts the 1619 Headquarters Poitiers in 1569, and Arthur Ford, Henri Pailler painters of the early twentieth century, not to mention the famous monster wooden La //Grand ' Goule// Cargot carved by the seventeenth century.

Le XIXe siècle The nineteenth century
The nineteenth century is now by the major artistic and large formats of Salon: neoclassicism (Valenciennes, Gauffier…), the romantic Orientalism (Fromentin, Chassériau…), ingrisme (Ingres, Flandrin…), 'academicism (Brouillet, Jean-Paul Laurens…), symbolism (Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau). The sculpture opens the ways of modernity with Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Camille Claudel the fund is the second public collection in France, with seven pieces of the artist in particular the largest //bronze, Niobide injured,// and the moving bust Terra Cotta, //a young woman with closed eyes.//

Le XXe siècle et l'art contemporain The twentieth century and contemporary art
In the twentieth century, modern art is brilliantly illustrated by great artists like Bonnard, Vuillard, Sisley, Marquet, Max Ernst, Mondrian… The collection is as original art for 1910-1940 with Romaine Brooks, Paul Belmondo. Contemporary art is present in the collections works by Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Olivier Debré… This collection grows over time by an active acquisition policy.

Cinerary urn with Shackless, Glass blowing

Vase- Reliquary, Blown glass decorated

Max Ernst, Little Turtle

There are several different section in the the museum. There is a section that display 16th- 18th century Flemish painting. Another section is also dedicated to painting and sculptures from 16th to 18th century Dutch art. Bonnard, Sisly and Oudot were few of many artists that have their works contributed in the museum.The museum views art and history from prehistory, Gallo-Roman up to the Renaissance and up to 19th century art and history. The museum is so big that it can take visitor up to 10 minutes to just walk from one section to another section.