Dauphinois Museum, Grenoble | Hours, exhibitions and artworks on Artsupp

The Musée Dauphinois is a museum in Grenoble dedicated to the history of Dauphiné, an ancient French province corresponding approximately to the departments of Isère, Drôme and the Hautes-Alpes. It also included a part of the Italian side of the Alps, now divided between the provinces of Turin and Cuneo. Opened in 1968, the Musée Dauphinois is located in the old 17th-century convent of Sainte-Marie-d'en-Haut. The museum traces the cultural and social history of the province, dividing itself between different disciplines such as archeology and ethnography. Its rich collection, which includes over 100,000 works, is divided between the Iconoteca (with drawings, posters, postcards, cartoons) and the Photo Library. It is also completed by films, audio recordings and over 20,000 objects that testify to the history of the area. The museum aims to perpetuate and spread a collective memory, also acting as a bridge between past and present, between local and universal. Hippolyte Müller, founder of the Musée Dauphinois in 1906, described it as a folk museum that reflects the customs, habits, uses of a certain population or even as "the sum of the history of a region through the object". But it is also a place for reflection on the contemporary age and on the present, thanks to the two or three annual exhibitions regularly organized by the museum, publications, conferences and cultural events in which to discuss issues of our time.

	opens - closes	last entry
monday	10:00 - 18:00
tuesday	10:00 - 18:00
wednesday	10:00 - 18:00
thursday	10:00 - 18:00
friday	10:00 - 18:00
saturday	10:00 - 19:00
sunday	10:00 - 19:00

Dauphinois Museum

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