library, to provide and additional 2,500 m2 of exhibition space for the public. Between 1992 and 1994, a building was constructed in the Bourrassol district of Toulouse to house the reserve collections. A new redevelopment study was carried out under the direction of Bernard Voinchet, the chief architect of Historic Monuments in 1992, and in 1994 a complete reorganization was arranged by Dominique Baudis, Mayor of Toulouse. Between 1994 and 1996, archaeological excavations were undertaken to uncover the necropolis of Saint-Sernin, near the tomb of the martyred saint Saturnin, and his burials dating to the 4th century. A lime kiln dating from the 5th or 6th century was also discovered, and with about a hundred sepulchres and severals inscriptions viewable today. After more than four years renovation the museum reopened to the public on Saturday, 8 May 1999 having been restored to its original 1523 appearance, while a part of the ancient early Christian necropolis, dating from the fourth and fifth centuries, has been excavated. Museum curators Ernest Roschach (1892-) Casimir Destrem Henri Rachou Emile Cartailhac (1912-1921) Jules Fourcade (1922- Eugène-Humbert Guitard (1935-1948) Robert Mesuret (1949-1972) Jacqueline Labrousse (1972-1985) Daniel Cazes (1985-2009) Evelyne Ugaglia (2010-2018) Laure Barthet (2018- Transfer and distribution of Toulouse collections 1892: monumental works remained at the Museum of the Augustins and small objects were transferred from the Musée Saint-Raymond 1931: the ethnographic collection was transferred to the Natural History Museum of Toulouse 1950: the ancient lapidary collections were transferred from the Musée des Augustins to the Musée Saint-Raymond 1961: transfer to the Paul-Dupuy Museum of collections after the Merovingian period Collections Formation The original collection originated from the collections of the Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles-lettres de Toulouse (fr), and the Royal Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, seized during the French Revolution giving birth to the Provisional Museum of the Republic installed in the Augustinian convent of Toulouse in 1793. The sculptures, discovered in the ancient Roman villa of Chiragan during the excavations conducted between 1826 and 1830 by Alexandre Du Mège, who became curator in 1832, were incorporated in the Museum of Antiquities arranged in the galleries of the cloister of the museum. The public can discover a remarkable ensemble along the Gallery of the Emperors and the Gallery of La Venus that can only be compared to the Louvre. Founded in 1831, the Archaeological Society of the Midi of France (fr) contributed