Musée dauphinois
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The Musée dauphinois is a county museum, located in Grenoble
Grenoble
Grenoble is a city in southeastern France, at the foot of the French Alps where the river Drac joins the Isère. Located in the Rhône-Alpes region, Grenoble is the capital of the department of Isère...

 (France).

The museum was founded in 1906 by the ethnographer Hipollyte Müller.

It is an ethnographic, archaeological and historical museum, covering the territory of the former province of Dauphiné
Dauphiné
The Dauphiné or Dauphiné Viennois is a former province in southeastern France, whose area roughly corresponded to that of the present departments of :Isère, :Drôme, and :Hautes-Alpes....

.

In a 17th century monastery, visitors can visit the chapel of Sainte-Marie-d'en-Haut with a rich baroque
Baroque
The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 decoration.

The permanent exhibits have English translations.

The museum is located at rue Maurice Gignoux, a street of the Bastille
Bastille (Grenoble)
The Bastille is the name of a fortress culminating at 476 m above sea level, at the south end of the Chartreuse mountain range, overlooking the city of Grenoble, France...

hill.
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