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In 1862 the Charitois Auguste Grasset Varzy and moved to annex the library-museum established here some years ago by pharmacist Henri Piffault. In many ways, this little bourgeois Nevers is the heir of the collectors of the 17th century, curious about everything, wanting all, accepting all, his habit of being knows no limits. His contemporaries describe him as a perennial beggar or as a variety of skinflint who never ceases to enrich the museum. This exclusive collector's passion brings us back to that of princes, notables and apothecaries who, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, have attempted to create a huge home theater embracing unusual materials and excellent images of all things. This utopian dream is, since 1993, partly presented in new and spacious premises to assess the best conditions the wealth of this private collection. Antiquity is predominantly represented by a collection of Egyptian neighbor in the basement of the museum, with a range of weapons and ornaments of the islands of the South Pacific. Upstairs, a chronological mix art objects, paintings and sculptures, paintings, medieval to pre-Impressionists. The recent Music Room provides a sound path revealing twenty odd instruments from the 17th to the 19th century, such as ophicleide, the bird-organ, the dulcimer or piano-forte. Finally, the second level has the finest collection of faience of Nevers and Varzy, and a set of tables Nivernais landscape painters of the 19th century