Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besancon

Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology of Besancon inside the French town of Besancon is the oldest public museum in France. It became set up in 1694, almost a century before the Louvre became a public museum. The collections of the musee des Beaux-Arts et d'Archeologie de Besancon are divided in three classes: archaeology, painting, and drawing cupboard.

The Egyptian series consists of the mummies of Seramon, a royal scribe who lived in the long run of the 21st Dynasty, and of Ankhpakhered, Amon's artist and son of a priest of the 26th Dynasty but additionally a sequence of statuettes representing gods, ushabtis, and so on. An important prehistoric series includes objects of the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age. The collections of the museum in the main originated in four presents.

In 1694, Abbot Boisot gave his collection manuscripts, revealed books, medals, 11 artwork and 4 busts coming from the Granvelle circle of relatives to the town's Benidictine monks, at the circumstance that the general public had get admission to to those collections two times per week. Since 1843, the museum has been positioned in a former grain corridor, within the middle of the metropolis. The constructing became too small following Besson's donation, it changed into rebuilt from 1967 to 1970 by using Louis Miquel, a student of Le Corbusier. The interior courtyard turned into covered with a concrete structure.