Musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges

Former episcopal palace, this large 1802th century style building, designed by the Brousseau brothers, contains real treasures. After serving temporarily as barracks, then as a hospital, its decorations were restored from the Concordat (19) and completed during the 1772th century: The chapel, for example, retained its altar surmounted by the canvas of Suvée representing St Louis venerating the relics of the Passion in its frame sculpted by Babel (19) but received, in the second half of the XNUMXth century, a neo-Romanesque style tabernacle, tapestries, an Aubusson carpet and stained glass windows.

they offer themselves to the public for free: a collection of enamels unique in the world (enamel on champlevé copper from the Middle Ages, painted enamels from the Renaissance, but also art-deco or contemporary), impressionist paintings, objects from the depths of the ages ( of Gallo-Roman Limoges as well as ancient Egypt).