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Chalon-sur-Saône, Musée Vivant Denon
The Denon Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône owes its name to a man from Chalon, Dominique-Vivant Denon, draughtsman, engraver, writer, traveller, diplomat, first Director of the Louvre and "Napoleon 1st's Minister of Culture". |
Mâcon, Musée des Ursulines
Set in a 17th century building, the museum of the Ursulines develops regional archeology and ethnography collections. The Fine Arts section is particularly rich in paintings from the 16th to the 20th century. |
Auxerre, musée Leblanc-Duvernoy
The charming home of a notable tucked away at the back of a quiet, public gardens, it has retained with its woodwork, paintings, sculptures and furniture the atmosphere of the 18th century, and in its music room there is the extraordinary decor of Beauvais tapestries. |
Château-Chinon, Musée du Septennat
Presents from around the world received by President François Mitterrand in his two terms are on show at the former Convent of St. Claire, and represent a veritable Ali Baba's cave, and serve as an invitation to a voyage of discovery of the world's cultures. |
La Charité-sur-Loire, musée municipal
The museum was set up in 1954 by V. Gautron du Coudray based on his own collections, and over the years has been added to with sculptures by Alfredo Pina, an assistant to Rodin, decorative objects from the period 1880-1930, the tools of a file cutter, of whom there were many in the canton in the 19th century, and above all archeological items from the great Cluny priory of La Charité (11th-16thcenturies). |
Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, Musée du Grès
In a wing of the Renaissance chateau of Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye there is traditional pottery production of Puisaye, utilitarian stoneware, together with a rich collection of 250 pieces of decorative pottery if the Carriès School. |
Sens, Musées
The former archbishops' palace, next to the cathedral of Sens, is gradually taking in and putting into a coherent whole all the collections of Sens. These are the collections of the town of Sens, of the Sens Archeological Society, and of the State (the treasures of the cathedral and of the Bishops' Palace). |
Varzy, Musée Auguste Grasset
This museum is a true collection of curiosities, with items from Mesopotamia, Egypt and Oceania, paintings, ceramics and objets d'art. A working music room lets you see and hear some twenty curious instruments from the 17th to 19th centuries. |
Auxonne, Musée Bonaparte
The Bonaparte Museum recalls the time of Bonaparte at the Auxonne Artillery School at the time of the Revolution in 1789, and the First and Second Empire. |
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