Jura Museum of Art and History
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About Jura Museum of Art and History
The Jura Museum of Art and History of Delemont is the mother or father of the reminiscence of the Jura areas that formed the Principality of Bishops of Basel. Founded in 1909 by way of Father Arthur Daucourt, obsessed on history and strongly imbued with the subculture of his country, the museum is presently a foundation made up of the Cantons du Jura and Berne as well as municipal and bourgeois communes of Delémont.
A region complete of person in the heart of the vintage metropolis of Delemont, the museum homes its collections in five adjoining old homes. Sitting on the ramparts of the vintage town, these homes are part of an architectural ensemble of the xviii th and 19th centuries. It has twenty-one permanent exhibition rooms that propose to offer the history of Jura, primarily in its cultural elements, but additionally social, political and monetary.
A room is devoted to hosting exhibitions and brief occasions. The museum also desires to take an unique have a look at society, artwork and history. Place of alternate and reflection, it actively participates in the social and cultural life of today. Historical and inventive reminiscence of the regions of Jura which fashioned the Principality of Bishops of Basel, the museum shelters varied collections.
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