MUSEUM OF MODERN ART – Episcopal Palace
(XVI – XVII c)
(Donated by Pierre and Denise Levy, industrialists and hosiers of Troyes) Place Saint-Pierre - Tel: 03 25.76.26.80

In the old bishops’ palace, this museum houses a collection of some 2,000 works representing the great movements in painting at the beginning of the century, of Courbet (1850) and Staël (1950) with a predilection for the Fauve and Expressionist movements.

Some evocative names: Vlaminck, Derain, Matisse, Dufy, Modigliani, Rouault, Van Dongen, Delacroix, Daumier, Maillol, Picasso, Cézanne, Seurat ...

Not to be missed: a rare collection of glass, (flacons, cups, transparent vases, with enamel decoration, engraved, carved… and in bubble glass, crackled glass with decorative inserts) by the famous Maurice Marinot (Troyes glazier) and a fine collection of African Art, one of the sources of modern painting.

Open from 10:00hrs to 13:00hrs and 14:00hrs to 18:00hrs except Mondays and public holidays.

THE MUSEUM OF CRAFT TOOLS (Maison de l’Outil) AND WORK REFLECTION
Hôtel de Mauroy (XVI c) - 7, rue de la Trinité – Tél: 03.25.73.28.26 -
Private mansion built around 1556 by Jean de Mauroy, financial controller, then transformed into an orphanage and directed by the Brothers of the Redemption of Paris, called the “Trinity of the Blue Children”. In 1746 the hosiery industry made its debut here.

The “Compagnons du Devoir du Tour de France” restored it starting in 1969. There are 20,000 tools from collections of the XVII to XIX c. The 8,000 pieces exhibited compose a hymn to the manual professions, with themes on stone, earth, iron, wood and leather.

The library contains 32,000 books, with two-thirds concerning the manual skills and a Vitruve dated 1572. There is also the first edition of an encyclopaedia by Diderot and Alembert (35 volumes).

Created under the impulse of Father Paul Feller, (1913 – 1979), the Maison de l’Outil has become the largest museum of craft tools in the world, for the quality, the quantity and the extent of the collection of tools presented, and also for the unique, timeless surroundings that transforms this into the “Craftsman’s Louvre”.

Open every day of the week from 10:00hrs to 18:00hrs.
Closed December 25th and January 1st.

Website : www.maison-de-l-outil.com

VAULUISANT MUSEUM
Hôtel de Vauluisant (XVIe) - 4 rue de Vauluisant - 
Tél: 03.25.42.33.33.

In this old private mansion, originally a hostel for the Cistercian monks of the Abbey of Vauluisant, there are two museums :

- Troyes and Champagne Historical Museum: Paintings, sculptures and stained glass from the famous Troyes school that flourished in the XVI c.

- Hosiery Museum: a good collection of knitted articles (ancient stockings, bonnets, vests…). There are around one hundred machines, all evoking the history of an activity that created the wealth and reputation of Troyes and its region.

Not to be missed: one of the first wooden looms of the XVIII c.

Open from Tuesday through Sunday from 9:00 hrs to 12:00 hrs and from 13:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs.

APOTHECARY OF THE HOTEL-DIEU-LECOMTE (XVIII c)
Quai des Comtes de Champagne Tél: 03.25.80.98.97

The foundation of the Hotel-Dieu goes back to Henri 1st the Liberal (XII c.). This fine building dating from the XVIII c. houses a rare collection of painted medicinal boxes in wood (319), faience, pewter and various objects linked to the pharmacy, such as bronze mortars *XVI and XVII c.).

Not to be missed: Rue de la Cité, superb gilt cast iron grill by the Parisian locksmith P. Delphin.

Open from Tuesday through Sunday from 9:00 hrs to 12:00 hrs and from 13:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs.

SAINT-LOUP MUSEUM (FINE ARTS, ARCHAEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY)
Abbaye Saint Loup (XVIIe-XVIIIe) – Entrance is by the garden in Rue de la Cité - Tél: 03.25.76.21.68 

Very important collections of painters and sculptors of the XV to the XIX c. (particularly XVII and XVIII c.) with works by Champaigne, Tassel, Mignard, Watteau, Fragonard, Greuze, Davis, Boucher, Girardon and Natoire.

See the gallery of mediaeval sculptures and its bestiary. Department of architecture from prehistory to Merovingian times. Treasure of Pouan (Aube): arms and jewellery of a Barbarian chief in 5th century gold. Apollo by Vaupoisson, rare bronze of the Gallo-Roman era.

Vestiges of a Gallo Roman villa, brought up to date and preserved in situ. Natural History Museum: fossils, insects, birds, animals… In the garden megalithic monuments, (polishing stone, dolmen, menhir).

Open from 9:00 hrs to 12:00 hrs and 13:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs except Monday and public holidays.

MUSÉE DI MARCO
Place de la Cathédrale - 61 rue de la Cité
Tél: +33(0)3.25.40.18.27
 
Since September 2004, the Place de la Cathédrale, already doted with the Modern Art museum on the one side and the Fine Arts, Natural History and Archaeology Museum on the other, is displaying a new kind of collection.

Angelo di Marco, reporter and artist of the “multiple effects” genre from the 50’s to the present, has carried out thousands of drawings at the request of a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, illustrating the “various facts” and “society pages”. These drawings, ephemeral in their time, are now gathered at the centre of the museum to preserve the works of this living artist, a rare occurrence in itself...

André Antoine, the museum’s founder and curator, came back to Troyes after 18 years living in Paris and having acquired a collection of the drawings (over 4,000) of this unusual artist, who was present in person for the inauguration. He installed his museum in a typical house situated on one of the most prestigious historical sites of Troyes : the Place de la Cathédrale. These are in fact two adjoining houses of the XVI c. that have the advantage of having been brought up to date as a backdrop, giving them extra feel.
As well as drawing, André Antoine and Angel di Marco share another passion that caused them to meet – jazz. (During the inauguration on Friday October 3rd 2004, we were able to meet Zanini, son of Michel Legrand, and many other great lovers and connoisseurs of jazz).


1st April to 1st October: open every day from 10:00 hrs to 18:00 hrs including Sundays and public holidays.
Off season : open every day from 11:00 hrs to 18:00 except monday and tuesday.
Entrance 5 euros (4 euros for groups of 10 people or more)
Boutique, projection room, cafeteria, bookshop
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Website : www.museedimarco.com