The museum shows, using various objects (tools, Merovingian sarcophagi, documents ...), the important moments in the history of Poissy: birth of St. Louis, construction and restoration by Viollet-le-Duc in the collegiate Royal Foundation of the priory in 1304 by Philip the Fair, activities related to the famous cattle markets or arboriculture. Stays are also discussed, and sometimes installation in Poissy, great painters of the last century such as Claude Monet, Ernest Meissonier and his son Charles, sixteen paintings came to the museum by donation in 1985.
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