Avignon - Musée du Petit Palais

The original structure was built during the Avignon Papacy between 1318 and 1320. Several times destroyed and restorated the building was used as an episcopal palace, as a fortified citadel and after the French Revolution when it has been nationalized and sold off as a catholic secondary school. In 1904 it became a professional and technical school. The last restoration work started in 1910. 1976 the building opened as a museum with an exceptional collection of Renaissance paintings by the Avignon school and from Italy.