Musée Louis-de-Funès, Film actor museum in Saint-Raphaël, France.
The musée Louis-de-Funès is a museum in Saint-Raphaël dedicated to the actor Louis de Funès, opened on 31 July 2019, the 105th anniversary of his birth. It continues the musée de Louis, a earlier museum at his Château de Clermont that closed in 2016, and takes over its collection, including loans from the de Funès family.
The museum was inaugurated on 31 July 2019, the 105th anniversary of Louis de Funès's birth, on the initiative of his granddaughter Julia de Funès. It succeeded the musée de Louis, a first museum opened in his château de Clermont and closed in 2016, whose collection it took over, including loans from the de Funès family. A month after opening it had reached three quarters of its annual visitor target, with a thousand visitors a day.
The museum shows how this actor shaped French comedy through costumes and film posters that document his most popular roles. Visitors see which characters brought him the most success and how his comedic style changed cinema of that era.
The museum is in Saint-Raphaël, in the Var department on the Côte d'Azur, near the Musée de la Gendarmerie et du Cinéma in Saint-Tropez. It opened on 31 July 2019, the 105th anniversary of Louis de Funès's birth, and drew around a thousand visitors a day in its first month. A temporary exhibition is renewed each year from 2021.
The museum continues the collection of the musée de Louis, a first museum closed in 2016 at the actor's château de Clermont, and holds loans from the de Funès family. It was launched on the initiative of his granddaughter Julia de Funès and inaugurated on 31 July 2019, the 105th anniversary of his birth.
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