Musea

The park (Le Jardin des Sculptures) is a hymn to nature and to sculpture. Jean-Marc de Pas, landscape artist and sculptor, has created a vast sculpture park, a poetic walk and landscape garden where art and nature transport the walker through a reverie of changing symbolic spaces around the château, chapel and pavilion of the … Lees verder » “Sculpture Park”

The museum (Musée du pays de Hanau) is housed in a renovated architectural complex listed as an Historic Monument and presents the history, culture and natural environment of the Hanau region (Pays de Hanau), the former County of Hanau-Lichtenberg and later the residence of the princes of Hesse-Darmstadt.      

The Museum presents a panorama of the lives of people in the territory of the whole of Normandy, from prehistory to the great migrations of the Middle Ages, mutations of the countryside to the first upheaval of the industrial society. Gauls, Romans, the Frankish kingdoms and Vikings are presented above the evocation of peaceful landscapes … Lees verder » “Museum of Normandy”

The collection “Painting in Normandy”brings together over one hundred paintings. The collection revolves about the representation of Normandy towards the end of the XIXth and beginning of the XXth centuries. Honfleur, Le Havre and Rouen are names of cities that stand as symbols for those moments of intense creation of an emerging modernity that go … Lees verder » “Peindre en Normandie”

The castle (Château de Caen) is one of Europe’s largest medieval castles. The massive walls date from 1060 and have protected the palace of William the Conqueror, the Exchequer Hall, the governor’s residence  and the Church Saint-Georges (Saint-Georges).

The museum (Musée Sobirats,  musée des arts décoratifs) of decorative art shows the interior of an aristocratic residence of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The museum (musée Comtadin Duplessis) presents a collection of paintings, sculpture and fine arts of the region, dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.