Musée dauphinois
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| Established | 1906 |
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| Location | rue Maurice Gignoux 38000 Grenoble |
| Visitors | 92,997 (2012) |
| Curator | Jean-Claude Duclos |
| Website | Musée dauphinois |
The Musée dauphinois (Dauphinois museum) is a county museum, located in Grenoble (France). The museum was founded in 1906 by the ethnographer Hipollyte Müller. Until 1968, it was installed in the convent of Sainte-Marie-d'en-Bas in the street Très-Cloîtres.
It is an ethnographic, archaeological and historical museum, covering the territory of the former province of Dauphiné.
This monastery of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary was first founded in the context of the Counter-Reformation in the 17th century. The congregation, only for women, was created in 1610 by saint Francis de Sales and saint Jane Frances de Chantal who settled their fourth house in Grenoble and named it the monastery of Sainte-Marie-d’en-Haut. The building was erected between 1619 and 1621 on the right bank of the Isère river, above the city, at the bottom of the Bastille hill’s slopes, long of Chalemont sloping road. At that time, Chalemont road, a former Roman road, was no longer the historical entry of the city thanks to a new road, dug in the rocks along the river. This new road was added a new door in 1620, known as Porte de France (France’s Gate) thanks to the duke of Lesdiguières.
This monastery welcomed several kinds of occupiers. During the French Revolution, it became a national belonging and was transformed into a jail for anti-revolutionary people such as local important men like Chérubin Beyle, father of the writer Stendhal, the cabinetmaker Jean-François Hache, chartreux Fathers and non-juring priests. In 1804, nuns of the Order of the Holy Heart led by Philippine Duchesne settled in the monastery and devoted their time to educating young girls. Then, the Ursulines settled there from 1851 to April 1905, when they were expelled and their furniture was put up for auction. From 1906 to 1920, the army quartered soldiers in the place. Afterwards, from 1920 the City lacking housing used the building to accommodate 150 families coming from Italy. When they were settled elsewhere at the end of the 1950s, the former monastery welcomed for a few years students of the Grenoble School of Architecture. Eventually, the building was restored by the City.
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