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The Musée d'archéologie nationale is a major French archeology museum, covering pre-historic times to the Merovingian period. It was named Musée des antiquités nationales until 2005. It is located in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the ''département'' of Yvelines, about 19 km west of Paris. ==Building== The château that houses the museum, which was in very poor condition, was classified as a ''monument historique'' on 8 April 1863. The interior was a maze of cells, corridors, false floors and partitions. The exterior was dilapidated and covered in a black coating. The architect Eugène Millet, a pupil of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, was assigned the task of restoring the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1855, and was told to remove all traces of the cells that the Ministry of War had installed when it was used as a prison between 1836 and 1855. In 1857 he reported that all the partitions forming the cells and dungeons had been demolished and the rest of the chateau had been cleaned. Millet was given the job of restoring the château to hold the planned National Museum of Antiquities. Work began in 1862 with the destruction of the West pavilion. Eugène Millet died in Cannes on 24 February 1879. The restoration was continued by Auguste Lafollye and Honoré Daumet, finally completed in 1907. Millet's goal was to restore the building to its state as it was under Francis I of France. 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「National Archaeological Museum (France)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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