An overview of the Musée de Pont-Aven's strategy with its new director (since June 2020): the strengths and weaknesses of the collection, recent acquisitions and coming exhibitions.
What will your priorities be for the Musée de Pont-Aven? Estelle Guille des Buttes-Fresneau was the curator and director here for fourteen years. It took on another dimension with her: she created a firm place in France's museum landscape for what was initially a "small museum" founded without a collection in the 1980s. A partnership was established with the Musée d'Orsay, and the museum gained from generous acquisition budgets. I want to give further visibility to our collection, which remains relatively unknown. We don't loan our works out very often, as we have relatively few in our reserves. We are gradually putting the collection online, and we're developing virtual exhibitions. The museum also houses a resource center open to all researchers. This contains about 4,300 works, a thousand dossiers on artists, thousands of antique photographs and postcards and over 500 manuscripts, including the correspondence between Maurice Denis and Albert Clouard, and letters from Paul Gauguin , Charles Filiger…
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