The museum, located in a "remarkable" garden, arose from the dream of Placide Massey, guiding in the XIXth century of gardens in Versailles. Its house offers to the public today a modern museum. The Massey museum in the label «museum of France» possesses the first international collection of the Hussars. This collection is rich currently in more than 17 000 objects which offer an overall view on one of the most unusual and the most appealing military "phenomena", today even, bound(connected) to certain imagination. Big(Great) stages of the museographic route(course) put the emphasis on the tactical originality which gave birth(rise) in "phenomenon hussar", its expansion across the world of the 16th in the 20th century, the office(durability) of Hungarian origin in identity and role of Tarbes as academy for France. More than one hundred and fifty models and busts, six hundred weapons and a hundred of paintings(paints), of artists such as Ernest Meissonnier or Edward Detaille tell the animated story of these hussars of thirty different countries. Aspects the most epic as the most personal are evoked across a precise speech, genuine articles, a chosen iconography and the appeal(recourse) to new technologies there. The public arranges numerous help tools for visit which allow him(her) to restore in their context objects, weapons and uniforms. The multimedia gives life to collections, accessible(approachable) and understandable for the largest number of become visitors actors of their visit. the collection Fine Arts Big(Great) erudite person and art collector, deputy of the Hautes-Pyrénées, Achilles Jubinal in the XIXth century was at the origin of the collection Beautiful Art of the museum Massey. It is about major works of the Italian painting(paint) of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, Dutch and Flemish paintings(paints) of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and of the French paintings(paints) of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries. His(Her,Its) action(share) provoked other gifts(donations), as those of the family Fould and of the Academic Company(Society) of the Hautes-Pyrénées as well as the deposits(warehouses) granted by the State. The Massey museum presents dan of new rooms a selection of its more remarkable œuvres.les The public is so invited to discover and to delight in front of one head - of work in a thematic route(course) where mythology and religious arts hold an important place(square).
Access
Entrée nord du Jardin Massey.
Website
http://www.musee-massey.com
Phone
05 62 44 36 95

Address
Rue Achille Jubinal, 65000 Tarbes, Hautes-Pyrénées, Occitanie, France