Abstract
Abstract During the Bourbon Restoration (1814–30), Alexandre Du Sommerard started collecting antiquarian objects, mainly dating from the medieval period. In 1833 he settled in the Hôtel de Cluny, where he displayed the collection in an imaginative way that aimed to recreate historical installations. Its success was such that, after the death of Du Sommerard in 1842, the hôtel and the collection of decorative arts were bought by the state and opened to the public as the Musée de Cluny in 1844. This new kind of museum offered an influential model for connoisseurs and collectors, among them Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli.
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