The Musée Rude is a Dijon museum dedicated to the romantic Dijon sculptor François Rude (1784-1855). It also houses a vast archaeological collection from the ancient castrum of Dijon. Inaugurated in 1947, the museum is housed in the old 11th-century Saint-Etienne church, in particular the transept and choir space of the church. The museum's collection exhibits life-size plaster casts of the artist's main works exhibited in other museums in France (including the Louvre in Paris) purchased by the municipality between 1887 and 1910. In particular, the museum exhibits the large cast in plaster of the "Departure of the volunteers of 1792", or more commonly "La Marseillaise", famous sculpture made by Rude, visible on the right foot of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. In the museum there are the archaeological remains of the 11th century crypt and the ancient Saint-Etienne gate of the 3rd century castrum of Dijon on which the church is built.