Musee Fabre

The Musee Fabre is a museum inside the southern French metropolis of Montpellier, capital of the Herault department. The museum was founded via Francois Xavier Fabre, a Montpellier painter in 1825. Beginning in 2003, the museum underwent a 61.2 million euro preservation, which turned into completed in January 2007. It is one of the most important points of interest of Montpellier and near the city principal square, the Place de Los Angeles Comedies. The museum countrywide importance is recognized with the aid of it being categorized as a Musee de France by way of the Ministry of Culture.

The metropolis of Montpellier becomes given 30 paintings in 1802 which shaped the premise of a modest municipal museum under the Empire, shifting among various brief sites. In 1825, the metropolis council established a large donation of works from Fabre and the museum changed into established in the refurbished Hotel de Massillian, officially opened on 3^rd December 1828. Fabre generosity led others to observe his instance, considerably Antoine Valedau who donated his collection of Dutch and Flemish masters to the city. On the death of Fabre in 1837, a legacy of greater than 100 snap shots and drawings finished the gathering.