The Museum Fine Arts is revealed

It all begins in the heart of the Palace of the Dukes and Estates of Burgundy, a place that is far more than just a building: it is a veritable time capsule situated in the centre of Dijon. Accompanied by your guide, you’ll step inside one of France’s oldest and most extensive museums, housed in a heritage setting listed as a historic monument.

I let myself be guided through the heart of the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts, and from the very first steps, I felt as though I were stepping into a conversation spanning the centuries. Housed in the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy, the museum boasts a transformed interior, completed in May 2019 after ten years of renovation work, where history plays hide-and-seek with modernity.

The tour takes in more than 1,500 works, from antiquity to the present day. Suffice to say that your cultural getaway is a rich and varied experience: you’ll move from ancient artefacts to more contemporary masterpieces, without ever leaving the same building.

On the one hand, the palace and its architecture; on the other, the museum’s collections and their unmissable works. The result is that you don’t just admire paintings; you come to understand how art, power and the city have shaped one another over the centuries.

This tour is designed for art lovers, but also for those who think they don’t like museums. Here, there are no lectures: just an immersive, guided and lively walk, where history becomes the backdrop and every room unveils a new scene.