Museums in Franche-Comté

Musée de la résistance et de la déportation
25000 Besançon

The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Besançon, labeled Musée de France, is located in the Citadelle. It traces the tragic history of the Second World War through rich collections and immersive museography.

Musée des Beaux-Arts
25000 Besançon

The Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, founded in 1694, is the oldest public museum in France. Set in an old 19th-century grain hall, it houses various collections, from archaeology to modern art, in the heart of Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

Musée du tracteur et du matériel agricole
70230 Loulans-Verchamp

The Museum of the tractor of Loulans-Verchamp, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, exhibits 150 old tractors and restored agricultural machinery, in a farm transformed into a museum space.

Musée des Artistes peintres célèbres
25290 Cademène

The Courbet Museum in Ornans, located in the home of the painter Gustave Courbet, is a departmental museum dedicated to his work and his artistic entourage, located in the Doubs in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

Musée de médecine et de chirurgie
39100 Dole

The museum of Pasteur's birthplace, located in Dole in the Jura, is a 16th and 18th century residence dedicated to the memory of the scholar Louis Pasteur, born there in 1822.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
25200 Montbéliard

The Beurnier-Rossel Museum, housed in an 18th century mansion in Montbéliard, traces art, history and traditions of the principality from 1700 to 1900. Ranked as a Historic Monument, it houses furniture, Protestant objects and music boxes LsSword.

39600 Abergement-le-Grand

The Sarret de Grozon Museum, housed in a 17th-century mansion in Arbois, houses collections of art and goldsmiths' collections left in 1902. This place combines historical architecture and artistic heritage in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

39800 Abergement-le-Petit

The municipal museum of Poligny, created in 1860 in the Jura, houses various collections in archaeology, ethnology and paleontology, including dinosaur bones discovered in 1862.