Museums in Franche-Comté

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 d'Archéologie et d'Antiquité
39200 Avignon-lès-Saint-Claude

The Musée de l'Abbaye à Saint-Claude (Jura) is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in the former Abbatial Palace, home to medieval archaeological remains and 19th-century pictorial collections.

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.

Musée des Métiers du Bois
39220 Bois-d'Amont

The Boisselerie Museum in Bois-d'Amont, Burgundy-Franche-Comté, is a place dedicated to local craftsmanship. Its history remains to be discovered in this emblematic village of Jura.

Musée des arts et traditions populaires
70600 Argillières

The departmental museum Albert and Félicie Demard, located in the Château de Champlitte (Haute-Saône), traces the rural life of Burgundy from the 18th to the 20th centuries through interior reconstructions and craft workshops.

Écomusée
70220 Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert

The Écomusée du pays de la cherise, installed in an old distillery of 1829 in Fougerolles-Saint-Valbert (Haute-Saône), traces the history of the distillation of kirsch and rural life in the 19th century in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

Musée des Beaux-Arts
90000 Belfort

The Belfort Museum of Fine Arts, located in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region, is part of a municipal museum complex rich in works of art and history, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

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.