Closed Mon, public holidays. No credit cards . Memorable documents include a poster exhorting Frenchmen in occupied France to accept compulsory work service in Germany - to act as 'ambassadors of French quality'. Closed Mon, some public holidays.
Displays are chronological.
The original 16th-century rooms house the Renaissance collections with portraits by Clouet, and furniture and pictures relating to the Wars of Religion. The first floor covers the period up to 1789 with furniture, applied arts and paintings displayed in restored, period interiors. Interesting interiors include the rococo cabinet painted for engraver Demarteau by his friends Fragonard, Boucher and Huet in 1765 and the Louis XIII-style Cabinet Colbert. The Revolutionary items are the best way of getting an understanding of the convoluted politics and bloodshed of the period. There are portraits of all the major players, prints, objects and memorabilia including a bone model of the guillotine, Hubert Robert's gouaches and a small chunk of the Bastille prison.