Ajaccio, Palais Fesch, musée des beaux-arts
www.musee-fesch.com
After the Louvre, the richest collection of Italian paintings in France. Primitive painters (Botticelli…), Roman and Neapolitan painters of the 17^th century (Bernini, Luca Giordano…). The museum also has a collection of 700 items connected with Napoleon.

Ajaccio, musée national de la Maison Bonaparte
www.musee-maisonbonaparte.fr
In the house of Napoleon's birth, documents, portraits, objects and souvenirs illustrating the life of the Bonaparte family. Traditional Corsican objects.

Avignon, musée du Petit Palais
www.petit-palais.org
An outstanding collection of 14^th and 15^th century paintings of the Italian school (Botticelli, Carpaccio, Crivelli…) plus a major collection of paintings and sculptures of the Avignon school (Enguerrand Quarton, Nicolas Dipre) displayed in the Palais des Archevèques d'Avignon.

Bayonne, musée Bonnat
www.museebonnat.bayonne.fr
Masterpieces of European painting; French (David, Géricault, Ingres, Degas), Flemish school (Rubens, Van Dyck), Spanish (El Greco, Goya). The museum also houses a collection of 2000 drawings of considerable interest and range: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Rembrandt, Poussin, Watteau, Delacroix.

Biot, musée national Fernand Léger
www.musee-fernandleger.fr
Paintings, drawings, mosaics, stained glass, tapestries, bronzes; numerous works tracing Léger's artistic development, from Cubism to social concerns by way of abstract art.

Blérancourt, musée national de la Coopération franco-américaine
www.museefrancoamericain.fr
Housed in a 17^th century chateau, a collection focusing on historical aspects of cooperation between the two nations from the War of Independence to the present day. The museum also contains a collection of 19^th and 20^th century American art.

Blois, musée des beaux-arts
www.chateaudeblois.fr
Collection of 16^th and 17^th century paintings (portraits, Martin de Vos, Corneille de Lyon…), plus a collection of 19^th century French paintings.

Bordeaux, musée des beaux-arts
A rich collection of masterpieces of painting and sculpture: Vasari, Titian, Veronese, Zurbaran, Rubens, Chardin, Delacroix, Corot, Boudin, Henri Gervex, Rodin, Zadkine, etc.

Cholet, Musée municipal
Alongside works depicting the history of the Vendée wars, a collection of Abstract Geometric works (Kupka, Gorin).

Dijon, Musée National Magnin
www.musee-magnin.fr
Collection of European Old Masters to the mid 19^th century: Flemish, Dutch and Italian works, French school (17^th to 19^th century).

Île d'Aix, musées nationaux Africain et Napoléonien
www.musees-napoleonien-africain.fr
Hunting trophies, stuffed birds, numerous Palaeolithic exhibits from South Africa, sets of African weapons. Objets, furniture, paintings, sets of engravings, portraits, etc. dedicated to the history of Napoleon.

Les Eyzies-de-Tayac, musée national de la Préhistoire
www.musee-prehistoire-eyzies.fr
Engraved limestone blocks and plaques. "Venus" and animal figures in the round, personal ornaments, bone hunting weapons, various tools, collections of anthropological objects.

Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts
www.pba-lille.fr
Panorama of European painting from the 17^th to the 19^th century: Northern school (Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens), French artists (Chardin, David, Delacroix, Courbet and Toulouse Lautrec), Italian and Spanish masters (Goya, El Greco, Tintoretto…). The collection also includes art from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 19^th century French sculpture and a collection of drawings.

Lyon, musée des beaux-arts
www.mba-lyon.fr/mba
A fine archaeological collection (Egypt), sculptures (Houdon, Rodin…), French paintings (17^th-19^th century) including the famous "Poème de l'âme" by Janmot.

Mouilleron-en-Pareds, musée national des Deux Victoires
www.musee-deuxvictoires.fr
Personal belongings, documents, engravings and photographs illustrating the life of Clémenceau and of Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny, and their respective roles during the two World Wars.

Nantes, musée des beaux-arts
Collection of paintings from the 13^th to the 19^th century (Italian primitives, Georges de la Tour…); contemporary paintings, photographs and installations.

Nemours, musée du château
19^th century photographs (views of Italy), Académie Jullian collection, archives of the painter Ernest Marché, plus paintings and drawings by minor masters of the 19^th and 20^th century.

Nice, musée Matisse
www.musee-matisse-nice.org
Paintings, drawings, gouaches and ceramics by the artist, illustrating his development from fauvism to "architectural painting" by way of abstract art.

Nice, musée national du Message Biblique Marc Chagall
www.musee-chagall.fr
Major collection of works illustrating the Bible: 17 large paintings from 1954 to 1967 with their sketches, gouaches, etchings and lithographs, sculptures and ceramics, stained glass illustrating "The Creation of the World".

Pau, musée national du château
www.musee-chateau-pau.fr
In the chateau of the Vicomtes du Béarn, a collection of tapestries from the 16^th to the 18^th century (in particular, the tapestry depicting the history of St John the Baptist); decorative objects; works relating to Henri IV.

Rennes, musée des beaux-arts
www.mbar.org/
Revolutionary creation, the museum of Rennes presents masterpieces illustrating the various European artistic movements : Véronèse, Botticelli, Dürer, Rembrandt, Caillebotte...

Roubaix, La Piscine, musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent
www.roubaix-lapiscine.com
Collections from 19^th and 20^th centuries: textiles, sculptures, Paintings and drawings. The museum is housed in a former indoor swimming pool, with an art deco interior.

Rouen, musée des beaux-arts
www.rouen-musees.com
European painting from the 16^th century to the present day: Perugino, Veronese, Clouet, Russian icons, Caravaggio, Velasquez, Philippe de Champaigne, Poussin, Watteau, David, Géricault, Ingres, Delacroix, Corot, Sisley, Monet, Moreau, Dufy, Modigliani, Dubuffet…

St-Quentin, musée Antoine Lécuyer
A unique collection of pastel portraits by Maurice Quentin de la Tour: Madame de Pompadour, Mondonville, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, etc.

Troyes, musée d'Art moderne
A glimpse of the French avant garde around 1905 (Vlaminck, Derain, Marquet, etc.) and the period between the two World Wars (Dufresne, Delaunay, Soutine, the Paris School…).

Valenciennes, musée des beaux-arts
Collections of 17^th century Flemish paintings (Rubens) and of 18^th and 19^th century French paintings and sculptures (Watteau, Boucher, Guérin, Boudin, Carpeaux, Hiolle, Lemaire).

Vallauris, musée national Picasso "La guerre et la paix"
www.musee-picasso-vallauris.fr
A 16^th century chateau transformed by Picasso's murals into a "Temple of Peace" between 1952 and 1954.

Vence, chapelle du Rosaire
Interior decoration of the chapel by Matisse (stained glass, ceramics, furniture, gold and silver work).

Vence, château de Villeneuve
www.museedevence.com
Studies by Matisse for the Chapelle du Rosaire.
Dufy's set of lithographs, La Fée Electrique.