A tourist looks at the prestigious art gallery that is exposed at the Musée Fabre in Montpellier Agglomeration. The French city of Montpellier, Languedoc administrative capital, noted for its long cultural and historical tradition. Among its museums, is known as Fabre, which houses an important collection of paintings, and which dates back to the nineteenth century, when it began as a modest municipal museum with thirty works to his credit. In 1825, a painter from the region, François-Xavier Fabre, Prix de Rome in 1787, donated a lot of ancient and modern paintings, prints and drawings, making the Museum an important reference art collection. Over time, the Fabre Museum has been enriched with the largest number of works, and today is in transition and study, because it has a heritage of 1,800 paintings, 300 sculptures, 1,200 art objects and more than 4,000 drawings , all belonging to a period from the Renaissance to the actual.Hasta the 5th of June, and thanks to the BBVA organization, you can enjoy in Madrid (Palacio Marqués de Salamanca, Paseo de Recoletos, 10) of a selection of works from the museum, under the supervision of the director, Michel Hilaire, and Professor John J. Moon. Also, from June 15 to July 24, the exhibition will be open in the Exhibition Hall of the BBVA (Church St. Nicholas) in Bilbao.