Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, Art museum in Palais Rohan, Strasbourg, France
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg is an art museum housed in the Palais Rohan, displaying European paintings from the 14th through the 19th century. The works are arranged across multiple floors of the building, guiding visitors through different artistic periods.
Strasbourg's first municipal art collection arose from the French Revolution's expropriation of churches and cloisters and was founded in 1801. Housed in the Aubette on Place Kléber, it was destroyed by Prussian artillery fire on 24 August 1870. Wilhelm von Bode was commissioned to rebuild it in 1889, and the museum reopened in 1890; since 1898 it has occupied the first and second floors of the Palais Rohan.
The collections feature works by major European painters such as Giotto, Memling, Botticelli, and Rubens, each representing different artistic traditions. Visitors can observe how painting techniques and subject matter evolved across the centuries.
The museum occupies the first and second floors of the Palais Rohan, so visitors climb a staircase to reach the galleries. Only about one sixth of the 1,934 works held in 2015 is on display at any time. The collection stops at 1871; medieval and Upper Rhenish paintings up to 1681 are in the neighbouring Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame.
The museum occupies the first and second floors of the Palais Rohan, which it has shared since 1898 with the city's archaeological and decorative arts collections. Its holdings reached 1,934 works by 31 December 2015, of which only about a sixth are on permanent display.
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