Tesse Museum

The museum of Tesse is the museum of pleasant arts of the city of Le Mans. It gives many guided tours on diverse subject matters and is positioned simply outside the natural setting of quincunxes of the Jacobins and Tesse Park. The constructing is an antique Episcopal palace, itself constructed at the web page of the former mansion of Marshal Tesse. In addition to an critical Egyptian series, it contains a reconstruction of the houses of eternity of Nefertiti, the wife of Ramses II and Jennifer, mayor of Thebes, in his specifically organized basement. Until 2009, the museum showcased the town's archaeological collections before they took their region in Maine's new Museum of Archeology and History.

The museum has 125 portions relationship from the IV the millennium BC. Originally, the Egyptian collection of the museums of Le Mans was constituted in 1819 with the aid of the visitor Marceau Eduard de Montale. He offers in 1822 his finds to the museums of Le Mans. This specifically vintage fund is enriched for the reason that 1913 way to the donation Liger.