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Dr Jules Lhomme (1857–1934) bequeathed a major collection of works of art and ethnography from around the world to the city. The display of this collection was inaugurated by the sculptor Émile
Peyronnet, then the curator of the museum, on 17 January 1935. This is one of the best French collections
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to Angoulême, where they were first stored in the attic of the old city hall. On 15 August 1869 a museum was opened on the ground floor of the new city hall, where it remained until 1920. On 12 September 1920 the present museum opened in two wings of the former residence of the Bishop of Angoulême.
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The Musée d'Angoulême collection is predated by the collection of the
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