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The Museum of Grenoble ((フランス語:Musée de Grenoble)) is a municipal museum of Fine Arts and antiquities in the city of Grenoble in the Isère region of France. Located on the left bank of the Isère River, place Lavalette, it is known both for its collections of ancient art for its collections of modern and contemporary art.〔According to the website and (Frame museums ).〕 ==History== The Museum of Grenoble was founded on 16 February 1798 by Louis-Joseph Jay, well before other French provincial museums. That day, an order of the local administration detailed the creation of a ''museum'' in Grenoble, in which article 10 stipulated that "the citizen Louis-Joseph Jay is appointed curator of this museum."〔According to the book by Joseph Roman ''History and description of library-museum of Grenoble.''〕 In May of that year, the Interior Minister canceled the creation of the museum but a provisional authorization was obtained in December, which became final on 3 April 1800. Beginning in 1799, while engaged in collecting works of art of the Isère Region, Jay requested a public subscription to purchase paintings and drawings. Housed in four halls of the first floor of the former bishopric from its opening on 31 December 1800, the museum had 298 works of art including 177 paintings, 80 drawings or engravings and 45 sculptures placed in the garden. Each hall had a name, the first Hall of Apollo, was devoted to French painters, the second Hall of Castor and Pollux, was devoted to Italian and French schools, the third Salon of Gladiator, had copies of the life of San Bruno by Eustache Lesueur, and the last hall was called Hall of the Venus de Medici, displaying art of the Flemish school. A few months after its opening, the Concordat of 1801 by Napoleon Bonaparte forced the evacuation of the premises of the museum to restore them to their original purpose. So in this way it was relocated on 14 July 1802 into the Central School,〔Old College of Jesuits, which had the status of a Central School in 1796, before becoming a normal school in 1803.〕 which is currently the Stendhall School (Lycée Stendhal). On 12 March 1807, a decree transformed the museum from a county museum into a municipal museum.〔According to the book of Lucile Duc, ''Musée de Grenoble, un itinéraire de passion.''〕 On 15 February 1811 an imperial decree allocated 209 paintings to six French cities and gave 32 to Grenoble. In 1815, despite a partial dispersion of works as a result of the ''Restoration'', (57 paintings were returned to their owners, 11 disappeared and an unknown number were deposited in the churches) the collection continued to increase. The acquisitions, donations and legacies continued throughout the 19th century and made it essential to construct a new building despite there having been a building expansion in 1844. A new building designed by the architect Charles-Auguste Questel was inaugurated in 1872 on the current site of Verdun Square. The museum-library, so called because it also housed the ''Municipal Library of Grenoble'', is one of the great examples of museum architecture in France and Europe. Towards the end of the 19th century, a great patron, General Leon de Beylié completed the museum's collection by donating four famous paintings by Francisco Zurbarán, continuing a long tradition of donations and bequests. He had a direct and massive influence on the richness and the nature of the collections. From 1895 until his accidental death on 15 July 1910, he bought for the museum 50 paintings, 13 drawings, 16 sculptures, 13 pieces of archeology and hundreds of objects from the Far East.〔According to the book ''Painting and sculpture of 19th century'', edited by Catherine Chevillot.〕 From 1920, the Museum of Grenoble was considered the premier museum of contemporary art in France since the Paris museum did not open until 1947. It is even one of the premier museums in the world together with the ''Folkwang Museum'' in Essen (Germany) and the ''Muzeum Sztuki'' in Łódź (Poland), as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York which did not open until 1929. In 1982, President François Mitterrand announced a plan to construct a new building. The following year, the new mayor of Grenoble Alain Carignon, and the Minister of Culture Jack Lang, agreed on the idea and the site of the new building, which was a park near the centre of town. After the appointment of architects in 1987, construction began in 1990. On January 30, 1994, the new building housing the collections was inaugurated by Prime Minister Édouard Balladur. Located in the heart of the city, bordering the Isère River, it tripled the exhibition space of the old museum. Its total cost was 203 million French francs (31 million euros). To complete the Museum there is a sculpture garden in the Albert Michallon park, a wooded area of 16,000 m² surrounding the old city wall from the late 19th century. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Museum of Grenoble」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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