Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux lies on the south side of the Jardin du Palais Rohan, the garden of the city hall which is in its turn located on the western side of the whole structure.  Founded in 1801, the Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux is the oldest public museum of the city and plays an important local, regional and international role. The museum’s collection of paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings is known worldwide, thanks to some 200-300 works lent to French and foreign museums each year. The collections are divided between the two wings of the museum.

The permanent collections cover a significant panorama of European art from the 15th to the 20th century, from Perugino, Titian, Veronese, Brueghel the Elder, Van Dyck, Rubens, Chardin, Delacroix, Corot, Rodin, Kokoshka, Picasso, to Matisse. This encyclopaedic vision is coupled with a strong regional identity, as shown with the works of artists from Bordeaux such as the neoclassical artists Lacour and Taillasson, the symbolist Redon, the fauve artist Marquet, the art-deco painter Dupas or the cubist Lhote. Built in 1939, the Gallery of Fine Arts houses the museum’s temporary expositions.

With its 8200 works (paintings, sculptures and graphic art), the collection of the museum of Beaux-Arts is the largest in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and one of the most important public collections in France. It makes itself known thanks to several loans, about 300 to French and foreign museums every year for exhibitions, partnerships with great French and foreign museums, involvement in cooperation networks such as FRAME and finally thanks to research (publications, colloquia…) which is done regularly. More