Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, combines a museum of modern and

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(''Musée'') and a regional collection of contemporary art (''Frac''). It is located in the French Occitanie region, in the city of

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. Les Abattoirs keep approximately 3,880 works and objects of all origins. Works of modern and

range for the oldest from 1934 (

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) to 2020, for the most recent acquisitions (

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History and organisation

The venue (whose name translates as ''the slaughterhouse'') opened in 2000 in a former municipal

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from 1823. It houses important works that were assembled from a specifically acquired collection and from several other existing collections, among which art collector Anthony Denney's donated collection, part of gallerist

Daniel Cordier Daniel Cordier (10 August 1920 – 20 November 2020) was a French Resistance fighter, historian and art dealer. As a member of the Camelots du Roi, he engaged with Free France in June 1940. He was secretary to Jean Moulin from 1942 to 1943, an ...

's donated collection, the former centre régional d'art contemporain de Labège collection and the former Frac Midi-Pyrénées collection. The museum's collection and the Frac's collection remain administratively separate.

References

External links

Official website
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