Museum Night
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Dijon Museum of Fine Arts
The exceptional setting of this prestigious museum, housed in a palace built over the centuries, has undergone a major renovation and extension project. No less than 60 million euros have been allocated to provide the Dijon Art Museum with facilities worthy of its collections.
Museum of Fine Arts
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Museum of Fine Arts
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Opened in 1799, the Museum of Fine Arts is one of the oldest in France, second only to the Louvre. It houses a collection of 130,000 works of art, which are stored in the new storage facilities.
The museum exhibits 1,500 works displayed in rooms dating from the same period as the artworks themselves, to ensure a logical correspondence between the ‘content’ and the ‘container’. The exhibition route follows the course of history through eight sections organised by historical period,from Antiquity to the 21st century.
Museum of Fine Arts
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Museum of Fine Arts
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As they make their way through the exhibition, visitors discover the collections of paintings, sculptures, works of art and furniture on display in the 50 rooms of this transformed venue. Using their smartphone, they can learn more and interact with multimedia terminals featuring digitised content.
The Brasserie des Beaux-Arts, situated on the ground floor of the Galerie de Bellegarde, opens out onto a terrace in the Cour de Bar. It offers visitors a restaurant open at any time of day for a culinary break in the capital of gastronomy.
A spacious bookshop offers a wide selection of books and a children’s area dedicated to games and children’s books. It is worth noting that admission to the museum remains free, as it is for all the city of Dijon’s municipal museums.
Dijon Museum of Fine Arts
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At present, the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts is offering a rich programme of events that goes far beyond simply showcasing its collections. Temporary exhibitions, artist spotlights, and insights into cultural movements or contemporary forms of expression: each event offers an opportunity to discover the museum in a new light and to create a dialogue between the works and creative output from both the past and the present.
