Museums

The museum (Musée Historique) presents the urban, political, economic, social and cultural history.  

The museum (Musée Tomi Ungerer) owns and exhibits a collection of 11,000 drawings, including works by that draftsman and illustrator Tomi Ungrer.    

The collection of the museum of Art and History (Musée d’art et d’histoire) covers the prehistory, the Romanization, Middle Ages up to the nineteenth century, showing paintings, sculpture, decorative arts and many archaeological finds.

The history of the museum (Musée des beaux arts) goes back to 1794 when (confiscated) works of arts from churches, abbeys and individuals were collected. In 1801, the museum received thirty paintings from the Muséum Central, the future Louvre. The collection encompasses many paintings from the 14th-20th centuries, ceramic, sculpture, fine arts and furniture nowadays. … Read more » “Museum of Fine Arts Tours”

The Museum’s collection brings together great artistic moments in France from the end of the nineteenth century up to the 1960s. Works by Daumier, Courbet, Seurat, Gauguin, Vuillard and Bonnard serve as an introduction to modern art. The Fauves (Braque, Derain, Vlaminck and Friesz) and the works of the School of Paris (Soutine and Modigliani) … Read more » “Museum of Modern Art”

At the start of the 16th century, Troyes was the cradle of an exceptional school of painting, sculpture and stained glass. Dozens of masterpieces are visible in many churches in Troyes and southern Champagne. The Museum houses some remarkable examples, in particular sculptures, such as the Vierge de Villenauxe, the Christ de Pitié ; paintings, … Read more » “The museum of Saint Loup”

The Museum of Art and History (Musée Georges Borias) presents the history of the medieval city and bishopric of Uzès and its political, archaeological and artistic past.