Slaughter-houses

the Slaughter-houses is a museum of Modern art and contemporary of Toulouse in area the Midday-Pyrenees. At the origin, this building was used for demolition of the animals to nourish the inhabitants of the town of Toulouse before being transformed into 1996 in museum.

History

It is in 1825 that a municipal project of regrouping of all the slaughter-houses dispersed in the city is set up on a site in edge of the Garonne and far from the center town. Urbain Vitry was designated as the architect of these new slaughter-houses. The construction of the building proceeds 1828 with 1831

In 1989, the building is closed then registered with the additional inventory of the historic buildings. In 1990, is born the project from the creation of one museum inside the old buildings. In 1992, a draft-agreement is signed between the State, the town of Toulouse and the Midday-Pyrenees area for the creation of a museum of contemporary art on the site of the Slaughter-houses. In 1995, the project of the architects Antoine Stinco and Remi Papillault gains the international contest and work begins as of 1996.

In 2000, work is completed and the museum open to the public.

The collection of the museum

The collection of the Slaughter-houses gathers 2000 works of second half of the 20th century. It primarily consists of paintings, graphic works, and a small whole of sculptures and installations brought to develop.

A single work is exposed to the museum, the curtain of scene of Picasso for the part July 14th of Romain Roland. It represents the skin of Minotaure in costume of Arlequin and goes back to 1936.

External bond

the official site of the Slaughter-houses

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