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The contemporary archive contains monographs, French and foreign exhibition catalogues, museum collection catalogues, French and foreign specialist reviews on the decorative arts and ceramics, sales catalogues, and La Gazette de l’Hôtel Drouot (from 2005-2012).
The archives are divided into various major themes linked to the museum’s collections, are alphabetically indexed and contain some remarkable works and collections, including :Ī copy of Diderot and d’Alembert’s “Encyclopédie”.Ĭatalogues of the major French, international and world exhibitions from 1871 to 1904.Īccounts of Limoges exhibitions, particularly from 1862, 1864, 1870, 18.Īrt and archaeology reviews (L’Art, L’Art décoratif, Art et décoration, L’Art pour tous, L’Art et les artistes, La Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Connaissance des Arts, Bulletins from the Limousin Archaeological and Historical Society). The library must have been a source of inspiration to these young people, situated right next to the museum’s pieces of art. Originally, these archives were used by the students at the Limoges National School of Decorative Arts founded by Adrien Dubouché. The old archives in the Adrien Dubouché National Museum library go back to the latter half of the 19 thcentury. To book an appointment you can contact us by telephone on +33 (0)5 55 33 08 50 or by email at The collections The library and documentation centre are freely accessible on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10am to 12pm and from 2pm to 5pm. The library is home to over 8,000 general documents on art, plus a collection of specialist works on the decorative arts and on ceramics, examining all the fields of art from the 19 th century to the present day. The special feature of the archive is that it continually adds documents to its files on the pieces in the museum’s collections. The documentation centre has a significant archive of documents on the museum’s works and artists, and also on the ceramics manufactories. The library and documentation centre provide a wide range of documents on the museum collections and all the ceramic arts, and more generally decorative arts.
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