Musée Perrin de Puycousin, Regional museum in Monastère des Bernardines, Dijon, France.
The Musée Perrin de Puycousin is a regional museum housed in the Monastère des Bernardines that exhibits ethnographic objects, rural items, and regional costumes from the 19th century. The collections offer a window into everyday Burgundian life during that period.
The collection was assembled by Maurice Bonnefond Perrin de Puycousin and first shown in 1938 at the Hôtel Aubriot, 40 rue des Forges. Attached to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in 1949, it closed in 1970 after serious deterioration. In 1984 it reopened in the 17th-century former Bernardine monastery at 17 rue Sainte-Anne, and in 1993 the sacred art museum of the Sainte-Anne church was attached to it.
The museum's eleven reconstructed Dijon shops include a hat shop, pharmacy, hair salon, grocery and butcher's shop. The mustard collection traces the origins and making of Dijon mustard and the city's role in it. Paintings such as François-Louis Lanfant de Metz's "La moutarde de Dijon" and Henri-Léopold Lévy's "Les Gloires de la Bourgogne" (1895) hang in the displays.
The museum is at 17 rue Sainte-Anne, in the former Bernardine monastery of the 17th century, entered from the courtyard with two levels of round-arched arcades. The visit continues into the Musée d'art sacré in the neighbouring Sainte-Anne church, so allow time for both. The two levels are linked by stairs; check access arrangements before arrival.
The museum keeps a documentary collection of more than 4,500 works, 110 periodical titles and photographs. Among its paintings is Henri Regnault's 1871 gouache of Garibaldi beneath the walls of Dijon, and it holds a large group of sculptures by Pierre Vigoureux.
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