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Temporary exhibitions
Exhibition "Water margin, the 108 outlaws" by Yan Pei Ming
Yan PEI-MING “Water margin, the 108 outlaws” 1994-1995 oil on canvas 120 portraits (each element: 120 x 100 cm) Works on loan from the National (...) Read the article

Exhibition "Paintings from the Grand Siècle", exhibition prolonged
This exhibition includes a hundred paintings along with an extension of freshly-hung works from the same period in the Fine Arts Museum in the (...) Read the article

Paul Renouard Exhibition, painter and illustraton
He illustrated the great events of his time: the trial of Dreyfus and Zola, the Queen of England's Jubilee, the world fairs, andf the First World (...) Read the article

Exhibition "Kéramos : 7000 years of ceramics"
The term ceramics stems from the Greek word "Kéramos", which means clay, and includes four families : pottery, earthenware, stoneware (...) Read the article

Summer exhibition "Jacques Androuet du Cerceau (1511-1586)"
The exhibition, jointly produced with the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine (Paris), deploys a wide range of œuvres and media – drawings, (...) Read the article

Exhibition "From Lorient to the Orient"
Far from being a dream, the historical archives reveal that this adventure engendered suffering and sacrifice, exile and misery for anonymous (...) Read the article

Festivities and crimes during the Renaissance, the Court of Henri III of France
At the end of the 16th century in France, political crimes and the Wars of Religion contrasted with the pomp and festivities of a Court which, (...) Read the article

"Women in resistance"
Giving and acknowledging the women's due place in society Pierre-Yves Ginet's work is dedicated to the resistance of women in the modern world. (...) Read the article

Exhibition : « Feasts of the Renaissance »
The exhibition will give an intimate glimpse into an era dominated by the renewal of aristocratic French cuisine under the sign of sweetness, the (...) Read the article

Exhibition "Eugene Gervais, painter and draftsman of Blois"
Eugene Gervais (Blois 1825-Blois 1909), painter, also art teacher in Blois, is one of the first curators of the museum of the city. Around a (...) Read the article