Angers - Lurçat Museum

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Lurcat Museum Description

(Local Name: Musée Jean Lurçat) The Lurçat Museum in Angers, housed in the old Hôpital St-Jean (12th C), displays works by the painter Jean Lurçat (1892-1966), best known as the renewer of the art of tapestry. In the large Gothic hall, originally the hospital ward, hangs a cycle of 10 tapestries woven in Aubusson, the "Chant du Monde", depicting the problems of mankind in our day and thus in a sense forming a counterpart to the "Apocalypse".

The hospital complex also includes a Romanesque cloister and a chapel.

Hobbies & Activities category: Architecture - Romanesque; Fabrics, textiles, costumes exhibits; Paintings, art collections

Address

Lurçat Museum
4 boulevard Arago
F-49100 Angers
France

Hours

June 14 to September 17

Open	9:00	9:00	9:00	9:00	9:00	9:00	9:00
Closed	18:30	18:30	18:30	18:30	18:30	18:30	18:30

September 18 to April 13

Open	Closed	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed		12:00	12:00	12:00	12:00	12:00	12:00
Open		14:00	14:00	14:00	14:00	14:00	14:00
Closed		18:00	18:00	18:00	18:00	18:00	18:00

Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1) May Day / Labor Day (May 1) 1945 Victory Day (May 8) Ascension Thursday - Christian Pentecost Monday (Whit Monday) - Christian Bastille Day - France (July 14) Assumption Day - Christian (August 15) All Saints' Day - Christian (November 1) Remembrance Day / 1918 Armistice Day (November 11) Christmas - Christian (December 25)