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Jean Lurçat and Contemporary Tapestry Museum

4 Bd Arago d, Anime, Loire Valley

Closed today: open tomorrow at 10:00

The Musée Jean Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine is a museum in Angers. It is located in the medieval Saint-Jean hospital, inside a former orphanage. Since May 16, 1968, it has housed the largest contemporary tapestry collection, the Chant du monde by Jean Lurçat. The museum stands as a contemporary echo of the Apocalypse Tapestry, the largest collection of medieval tapestries. In the large hospital room of the old hospital, a series of ten tapestries (made by Jean Lurçat from 1957 to 1966) are gathered which constitute an epic, poetic, symbolic and humanist vision of the twentieth century. There are also other examples of tapestries made from the Second World War to the present day. The core of the collections is made up of donations from Jean Lurçat, Thomas Gleb and Josep Grau-Garriga. There are works by Yves Millecamps, Mario Prassinos, Michel Tourlière or Robert Wogensky. The museum also organizes two temporary exhibitions a year, both monographic and collective, dedicated to contemporary textile research.

	opens - closes	last entry
monday	Closed now
tuesday	10:00 - 18:00
wednesday	10:00 - 18:00
thursday	10:00 - 18:00
friday	10:00 - 18:00
saturday	10:00 - 18:00
sunday	10:00 - 18:00

Jean Lurçat and Contemporary Tapestry Museum

Jean Lurçat and Contemporary Tapestry Museum

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