Musée Dom-Robert et de la tapisserie du XXe siècle, Tapestry museum in Sorèze, France.
The Musée Dom-Robert et de la tapisserie du XXe siècle occupies 1,500 m² in one wing of the former abbey-school of Sorèze, renovated by architect Susanna Ferrini of the Italian firm n!studio after a 2012 competition. The wing's pale golden-beige stone facade has a triangular pediment with dentil moulding, two rows of tall mullioned windows and a round-arched entrance with red double doors. Inside, a wooden loom with green, white and dark weaving stands near a glass-topped display case.
The museum was inaugurated on 11 April 2015 in a wing of the former abbey-school of Sorèze, renovated by architect Susanna Ferrini of the Italian firm n!studio after a 2012 competition. Its core comes from the deposit of En Calcat Abbey at Dourgne, formed from the legacy of the Goubely workshop in Aubusson. Dom Robert (1907-1997) was a Benedictine monk there; two-thirds of the hundred-plus tapestries are his, the rest by other artists woven by Suzanne Goubely.
Dom Robert's tapestries depict the animals and plants of the Montagne Noire, worked in the manner of medieval mille-fleurs. The pieces were woven by Suzanne Goubely's Aubusson workshop, whose legacy, drawings and cartoons came to the museum from En Calcat Abbey. A technical space traces how a tapestry is made, and a wall of hanging yarn samples shows the weaver's palette.
The museum occupies 1,500 m² in one wing of the former abbey-school, renovated by architect Susanna Ferrini of the Italian firm n!studio after a 2012 competition. The displays are rehung on a three-year rotation: after "Chevaux, mouvement, couleurs" (2021–2023) came "Prairies animées" (2024–2026). The visit runs through five numbered sections, from "Un homme – Un paysage – Une œuvre" to aspects of 20th-century tapestry.
The collection grew through donations: about sixty works by Pierre Sulmon (1932–2008) arrived in 2020 from his wife, and a large gift from Yves Millecamps (born 1930) followed in 2022, adding tapestries, cartoons and gouache models.
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