Musée de la Renaissance en Champagne – Hôtel de Vauluisant

The origins of the Musée d'Art champenois du 16e siècle collections are the same as those of the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.

The Société Académique de l'Aube founded the Troyes museum in 1831, on the premises of the former Saint-Loup abbey. It began by bringing together works of art seized during the revolution, followed by a large number donated or bequeathed to the museum, and finally by new acquisitions. These collections were transferred to the town in 1945, when the museum became a municipal museum.

The size of the collections meant that they had to be housed in two buildings. In 1949, the Hôtel de Vauluisant housed the collections devoted to 16th-century art, with remarkable paintings and sculptures that provide an insight into the extraordinary flowering of religious art in Troyes and the Champagne region at that time.

Last updated on 18/10/2024 - Troyes La Champagne Tourisme