Mirande Fine Arts Museum Artistic treasures and history in the heart of Gers in Mirande

Mirande has a Museum of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts created in 1832 by Joseph Delort, art lover and head of the Fine Arts section at the Ministry of the Interior. You will discover a remarkable collection of paintings from the ^15th to the 19th ^centuries, Italian, Flemish and French, a dedicated gallery presents Campanian and Gallo-Roman pottery, earthenware from the South-West, but also from Nevers, Moustiers, Marseille, Creil, Samadet, porcelain from Old Paris, as well as magnificent watercolors.

A curiosity on display at the Museum: Toussaint Louverture's cane was donated to the Museum by the Noé family of L'Isle-de-Noé. Toussaint Louverture, born into slavery on the family's estate on the island of Saint-Domingue, was the first major Black liberator in the fight against slavery in the history of the colonies.