The Ministry of Culture appointed a new director of the Adrien Dubouché National Museum on July 11. Jean-Charles Hameau has been the heritage curator of the Limoges branch of the Cité de la Céramique since 2014. He joined the Adrien Dubouché Museum immediately after his training at the Institut National du Patrimoine, and will stay there for at least three more years, the duration of his renewable term as director. He previously studied at the École du Louvre and the Sorbonne.
He replaces Céline Paul, director of the museum since 2012, who also spent most of her career in Limoges: she joined the Dubouché museum in 2005, as head of the ceramics and glass collections. She leaves the establishment at the end of her fourth term as director.
The Musée national Adrien Dubouché has the world’s largest public collection of Limoges porcelain. The collections include 16,000 pieces of Limoges porcelain and ceramics, as well as glass objects from Antiquity to the contemporary period. Since 2012, it has been part of the public establishment of the Cité de la céramique, with the museum and the Sèvres factory.
