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Origin and history

The Old Logis Museum is housed in a Nice villa remodelled in the early 1930s to house medieval religious art collections. This site was designed to exhibit a set of usual objects and furniture gathered by Reverend Dominican Father Alfred Lemerre. The works and the building were given to the City of Nice in 1937, marking its transformation into a public museum.

The museum's collections cover a period from the 14th to the 16th century, with religious paintings from the schools of Paris, Avignon, Burgundy, Flemish, German and Dutch. There is also a Gothic statuary of Île-de-France, Bourguignonne and Franc-Comtoise of the 15th century, as well as stained glass windows and reconstructed furniture from the late Middle Ages. The museum also offers a reconstruction of living places such as a kitchen, a chapel and cells.

The Musée du Vieux Logis is labeled "Musée de France" and is located at 59 avenue Saint-Barthélémy in Nice. His interest lies as much in his remodeled architecture as in the richness of his collections, offering an overview of sacred art and the popular arts of the late medieval period.

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