Location: Avignon
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Avignon charms visitors with its ancient streets, restored medieval ramparts and the immense Gothic architecture of the Palais des Papes (Palace of Popes—the papacy was based here in the 14th century). The annual Festival d'Avignon, a major arts festival, attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors for theater, dance, film and street performances.
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1. Musee du Petit Palais
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4.5 based on 444 reviews
Reviewed By 227ianc - London, United Kingdom
The Petit Palais in Avignon was built during the period of the Avignon Papacy by Cardinal Berenger Fredoli the Elder in around 1318–20 and in 1335 became the Archbishop's Palace. The interior today is much as it was then and houses an impressive collection of religious art from Romanesque to Renaissance, including a Virgin and Child by Botticelli. In an interesting initiative, each year the Parcours de l'Art and the Petit Palais museum allow an artist to show works that interact with the museum's art collections. For 2019, Ernst Günther Herrmann has placed his metal sculptures in various rooms of the museum, next to sculptures and paintings of the from the 12th to the 15th centuries. A great initiative which purists will hate, but is a means of connecting across the centuries.
2. Le Grenier a sel
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
Lieu culturel dédié aux nouvelles formes d’expressions artistiques, le Grenier à sel propose une programmation qui relie l’art, la science et les technologies du monde contemporain : expositions, ateliers, rencontres, spectacles... Le Grenier à sel existe grâce au fonds de dotation Edis, organisme d’intérêt général dont la vocation est de soutenir les pratiques artistiques émergentes et de permettre leur accès à un public large et diversifié.
3. Musee Louis Vouland
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4.0 based on 82 reviews
The Louis Vouland Museum shows a Decorative Art permanent collection (furniture, tapestries, ceramics, paintings and silver smithery) located in an "hotel particulier" (private mansion) from the XIXth century which leads to a back garden. The museum is closed from January 6 to February 14, 2020.
4. Musee Angladon
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4.0 based on 315 reviews
