Domaine de Vizille - Musée de la Révolution française

At the gates of Grenoble and the Oisans range, on the Napoleon Road, the Vizille Domaine de Paris on a single site, a prestigious cultural heritage and a natural setting for relaxation.

l are nearly forty years, the state transferred already one of the emblematic places of the history of France to the General Council of Isere. The responsibility is heavy to ensure both the integrity of such always coveted heritage and give meaning to the service of all.

Since, over the decades, the determination of the General Council of Isere transformed the presidential palace of the Third and the Fourth Republic in a departmental service, Vizille Domaine, free site, widely open to the public space relaxing and especially meeting and sharing culture. Of all the institutions that express the cultural commitment of our department, the Domaine de Vizille is without doubt the busiest, (800 000 entries of which 60 000 visitors of the French Revolution Museum). Its appeal lies mainly not in his tenure he shares with many others, but in its complementary diversity (park, castle, museum) and its continued ability to precede modernity.

For example, studies are still carried out today show how, as far as the strategic location, the hydraulic system located near the old medieval building was a key element in the implementation, after the Renaissance, the Constable of Lesdiguières, mindful of natural resources and their sustainable use, visionary planner of public spaces of the former province of Dauphiné Isère which is in large part heiress.

The French Revolution Museum installed in a site where it is celebrated for two centuries, continually draws public attention to the close relationship between art and history, between an event or a company and its representation, inviting exceed the appearance to perceive the realities, beliefs or myths propaganda underlying all images. This original approach is a critical alert, an invitation to defy historical discourse.