Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille

The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is one of the main museums in the city of Marseille, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.It occupies a wing of the Palais Longchamp, and displays a collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings from the 16th to 19th centuries.The museum is one of five created by the Consulate in 1801, in the main cities of France.The basis for the collection was the seizure by revolutionaries of state property after the consular decree of 1 September 1800.Successive deposits of state property were made in 1814, 1817 and 1819, and throughout the rest of the 19th century. In 1856, the Borély collection was acquired by the museum.In 1869, the museum moved into the left wing of the Palais Longchamp.As of 2012, the museum was closed for renovations.

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