Requien Museum

67, rue Joseph Vernet
84000 AVIGNON - FRANCE

Phone: 04.13.60.51.20

Price min : gratuit

Establishment description

The Museum Requien owes its name to its creator Esprit Requien (1788 - 1851) who, in 1840, bequeathed to the Calvet Museum its collections and its library. Esprit Requien devoted himself very early on to botany, then to malacology and paleontology.
Since 1943, the museum has been housed in the Raphélis de Soissans hotel (18C) which adjoins the Calvet Museum. With more than 1.2 million specimens, it is one of the most important natural history museums in the region. It regularly presents exhibitions. It also houses a large study library and reserves accessible only to researchers.

Ouvert tous les jours sauf dimanche et lundi: de 10h à 13h/ 14h à 18h.

Labels, services & amenities

Handicapped access: NO
Pets allowed: NO
Group allowed: NO

News & Specials offers

From 05/19/2021 to 06/25/2022. Come and feel the atmosphere of this timeless place, museum of popular arts and traditions and ethnological, Provençal and archaeological documentation center.A place bearing witness to the history of a great Avignon family and to an architecture that has been constantly reworked since the 15th century.Former Hotel de Baroncelli-Javon, Flandreysy-Espérandieu Foundation. For five centuries, from 1469 to 1908, the Baroncellis, originally from Florence, occupied the Gothic residence transformed in the 17th century. in a private mansion to which Frédéric Mistral gave the name of 'Palais du Roure' in the 19th century.Today a center of Mediterranean culture, more specifically devoted to Provence, its history, traditions, language and literature. Important collection of bells assembled by Jeanne de Flandreysy.The guided tour gives access to the 2nd floor, which is not visible during the self-guided tour.