Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne)
museum of Contemporary Art
The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), or MAMC, is an art museum in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
It was inaugurated as a separate museum in 1987. It has one of the largest collections of its type in France.
Museum
The Musée d'art moderne was originally a section of the Musée d'art et d'industrie.
It was inaugurated as a separate museum on 10 December 1987, within a renovated museum complex that also includes the Musée de la mine (Mining Museum) and the Musée d'art et d'industrie (Art and Industry Museum).
The museum has about 3,000 square metres (32,000 sq ft) of display space.
Ten rooms display samples of the museum's collection and fourteen are used for temporary exhibitions on a given theme or major artist.
The museum has a restaurant that is open at midday.
Collection
The collection, which was started in 1947, is one of the most important of its type in France.
The museum now has more than 19,000 works, mostly from the 20th century but including some ancient art.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3329646. VIAF identifies the subject as 133352940. The Library of Congress control number is n87109492. Authority coordinates are 45.469, 4.374. 4 of 6 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 1947.
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