Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie de Besançon 2.61

The Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie in the French city of Besançon is the oldest public museum in France. It was set up in 1694, nearly a century before the Louvre became a public museum.CollectionsThe collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie de Besançon are divided in three categories: archaeology, painting, and drawing cabinet.Archaeology The Egyptian collection includes the mummies of Seramon, a royal scribe who lived in the end of the 21st Dynasty, and of Ankhpakhered, Amon's artist and son of a priest of the 26th Dynasty but also a series of statuettes representing gods, ushabtis, etc.An important prehistoric collection includes objects of the Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age.The most important archaeology collection belongs to the Gallo-Roman period, it includes mosaics, other objects found during digs in the town, and the bronze statue of a bull with three horns from Avrigney.The medieval collection includes statues, stone sarcophagus and other relics.