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MUSEUMS 2018 THE GUIDE


Maisons Satie


Honfleur The Picasso retrospective at the Musée Fabre runs until September 23


own right. Formerly an Augustinian convent, today it welcomes visitors with a beautiful red-brick façade, huge halls and an attractive central courtyard. The Augustins is also entrusted with seven paintings from the Musées Nationaux Récupération, the art collection recovered from Germany after the Second World War. www.augustins.org


Musée d’Orsay Paris


Filling the former Gare d’Orsay, this ode to 19th- and 20th- century art is without equal. Ranging across the gamut of mediums and a broad sweep of movements, including


Impressionism and Art Nouveau, there is always plenty here to indulge the art lover – and admirers of architecture, especially with the station’s high arched ceiling and central golden clock. Make sure you catch the current exhibition focusing on French polychrome sculptures, running until September 9. www.musee-orsay.fr


Musée Eugène Boudin Honfl eur


Set in the landscape painter’s hometown, Musée Eugène Boudin is a celebration of Normandy and the wild coastlines that so inspired the artist and his contemporaries. Housing a selection of Boudin’s own works, which he bequeathed to the town, as well as pre- Impressionist paintings by the likes of Monet and Courbet,


the museum presents the region as it was seen by some of art’s biggest names. After admiring their creations, follow in their footsteps and wander round the pretty port town of Honfl eur, Calvados. www.musees-honfl eur.fr


Musée Fabre Montpellier


Hours and hours can be spent moving through the large and numerous rooms at the Musée Fabre, admiring the rich array of works on show. Covering the past 500 years or so, these paintings and sculptures from Europe’s greatest visit a breadth of subjects, from classic religious scenes to all manner of portraits and luminous still lifes. At the moment, the museum is holding a retrospective on Picasso, honing in on 14 key dates from his career and exploring his evolution into one of art history’s best-known fi gures. museefabre.montpellier3m.fr


MusVerre Sars-Poteries


From its sleek exterior, made from local blue stone, to the near-clinical whitewashed display space inside, MusVerre is ultra-modern in every sense. This is the house of glass, a place for truly amazing créations en verre to take centre stage. If you head there in August, you can catch the Udo Zembok exhibition, a look at the Franco-German artist’s positively dreamy ‘glass paintings’. musverre.lenord.fr


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Open every day - 10 h/19h. 6,30 € and 4,80 € 67, boulevard Charles V Honfleur


0033 2 31 89 11 11 www.musees-honfleur.fr


IMAGE © MUSÉE FABRE


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