A lively place open to creation, the Adrien Dubouché National Museum has won a third star in the Michelin Green Guide. It thus became the twentieth museum to obtain this distinction and the first in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
This 3e The star distinguishes the Adrien Dubouché National Museum, an unmissable place for those who want to discover the history of porcelain, a know-how of excellence recognized worldwide.
Located in Limoges, the French capital of porcelain and creative city of UNESCO, the Adrien Dubouché National Museum (Cité de la céramique Sèvres and Limoges) is, by the importance of its regularly enriched collections, the dynamism of its actions and the notoriety it enjoys, a jewel of the museums of New Aquitaine. Renovated in 2012, the museum traces the history of ceramics and preserves the richest porcelain collection in Limoges in the world.
This ambitious museum unfolds within an architecture consisting of buildings classified as «historical monuments» linked by a contemporary extension. As such, the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC) provides support and monitoring of the work that can be carried out on the site.
Adrien Dubouché National Museum) is one of 114 museums with the designation «Musée de France» in New Aquitaine. This designation includes both national museums, whose collections belong to the State, and museums belonging to other owners (mainly local authorities), whose collections are of major public interest. The DRAC of Nouvelle-Aquitaine provides the animation of the network of museums of France in the regions, the advice to the owners of the collections and the scientific staff who are responsible for them and carries, for museums not under the jurisdiction of the State, scientific and technical control over the fundamental missions of these institutions: preserving, studying, valuing and disseminating collections.