Musée Sainte-Croix

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Entrance to the museum

The Musée Sainte-Croix is the largest museum in Poitiers, France.

Planned by the architect poitevin and built in 1974,^[1] it stands at the site of the former Abbaye Sainte-Croix, which was moved to Saint-Benoît, Vienne. It is a constructed of concrete and glass, in the 1970s style.

The museum hosts a permanent exhibition on periods from prehistory to the contemporary art, through the medieval period and the Fine arts. Major works include sculptures of Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, a reliquary vase from Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe, paintings by Piet Mondrian and Odilon Redon and the stone sculpture of L'Âme de la France by Charles Marie Louis Joseph Sarrabezolles.

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  Le Repos de la Sainte Famille pendant la fuite en Égypte, Louis Gauffier, 1792.

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  La Mort de Hyacinthe, Jean Broc, 1801.

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  Eugène Fromentin, Une  [fr], Algérie, 1869

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  Ophélie,  [fr], (detail) 1851.

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Coordinates: 46°34′45″N 0°20′52″E / 46.5792°N 0.3477°E / 46.5792; 0.3477

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