Museum of the Art schools of Nancy

The Museum of the Art schools of Nancy created in 1793, is one of the oldest museums of France. It is installed Place Stanislas with Nancy in one of the four large houses which surround the place created in 1755.

Collections

The European art of XVe at the XXe century, presented in the various wings and buildings of the museum, proposes remarkable tables of Tintoret, Caravage, Rubens, Boucher, Delacroix (the Battle of Nancy); also Manet, Monet, Modigliani, Dufy, Picasso…

Many works of Lorraine artists are also presented with Claude Lorraine the, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Emile Friant, Victor Prouvé, Aimé Morot or Etienne Cournault.

One can admire also there sculptures of Maillol, Laurens, César…

the Cabinet of graphic art:

It allows the conservation and the exposure of a great number of prints and drawings among which those of Jacques Callot or of the illustrator Grandville.

Space of temporary exhibition:

A vast part of the modern building is reserved for the temporary exhibitions and accommodated works of artists as prestigious as William Turner or Barbara Hepworth…

Collection Daum:

The basement presents in the middle of the fortifications an astonishing collection of Daum glassmaking, revealing in particular of the movement of the École of Nancy, floret of the Art nouveau French.

Buildings

Located between the monumental fountain of Neptune and the entry of the street Stanislas, the building of the Museum of the Art schools of Nancy east built in the majestic style of the Place Stanislas, masterpiece classified with the world heritage of UNESCO.

Behind this building was located the Theater of the Comedy of Stanislas Leszczyński, built in 1758 and unfortunately disappeared in 1906 (theater which was replaced in 1919 by the Opera-Theater of Nancy, vis-a-vis the museum of the Art schools). The space left by the theater of the comedy allowed a first extension of the Museum in 1936.

One second extension carried out in 1995 by Laurent Beaudoin made it possible as for it to have resolutely modern buildings and to double the surface of the museum. The basement of this extension proposes an exposure of a hundred parts of crystal manufacture Daum integrated into the heart of the fortifications of the city of the 15th century.

Information and bonds

the reception of the museum will inform you about the schedules, tariffs and visits.

opened the every day of 10:00 to 18:00/closed Tuesday and the January 1st, May 1st, July 14th, November 1st and December 25th

Accessibility with integrality of the collections for the people with reduced mobility.
Site of the museum

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