Arles - Museum of Arles Museon Arlaten
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The Museon Arlaten was founded in 1899 by the famous Provençal poet Frédéric Mistral. The Palais de Laval-Castellane, in which it is housed, is built on the remains of an ancient basilica, and was first a nobleman's palace and then a Jesuit college. Mistral, a Nobel Prize winner of 1904, donated the amount of his prize to create in his native region a permanent museum. It is now the most important collection of Provençal folk art, displaying furniture, costumes, ceramics, tools and farming implements.
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Address:
Museon Arlaten, 29 rue de la République, F-13200 Arles, France
Hours:
July 1 to August 31: 9am-12pm, 2pm-7pm
September 1 to June 30: 9am-12pm, 2pm-5pm; Closed: Tue
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