Groups
Associations - Leisure centers - Early childhood - Social centers - Handicaps...
Self-guided groups are welcome during museum opening hours. Guided tours are offered from Tuesday to Friday, and at certain weekends, depending on the availability of the tour schedule.
Reservations are required for all groups. Requests must be made at least 15 days before the desired date.
Guided tour
A group is made up of a maximum of 30 people. The group size may be reduced if the exhibition space cannot accommodate this many people. Two groups (60 people) can be accommodated simultaneously at the MBA only, and only if the theme or space permits. For more than 60 people, please plan to organize the event over the course of the day.
Groups with special needs
For people with disabilities or special needs (the visually impaired, young children, as well as those in the social sector, etc.), the Audience Services team develops adapted tools and content... A special gauge and price structure are proposed.
Rates
60 € up to 15 people / 120 € from 16 to 30 people (ticket price included)
Open house
For more than 30 people, plan delayed access or a different route so as not to impede the flow of visitors.
For groups of 60 or more, allow sufficient time for the groups to interact.
By prior arrangement, a group can be accompanied by its own guide.
Rates
Tickets only: €4 per person for groups of 10 or more, €8 per person for groups of less than 10.
Regulations
Payment must be made at the museum reception desk on the day of the visit, by credit card, cheque or cash, against presentation of an invoice. In the case of deferred payment, an order form must be received at least one week before the visit, mentioning the Siret of the paying organization.
MBA themes
For adults
Art history
Suitable for a first visit to the museum, this selection of masterpieces from the collections takes visitors through the history of art, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. The tour evokes some of the major transformations in art over the centuries, and the ways in which artists have both drawn inspiration from and emancipated themselves from the world around them.
Enlightenment society
The collections of portraits, historical scenes, landscapes and objets d'art reveal the complexity of a century in which pleasure, frivolity and the sublime rhyme with rationality, truth and virtue: two facets of the same passion for freedom, exploration and knowledge.
The paths of love
Passionate, maternal, filial, narcissistic, love in all its forms will be the common thread running through this tour. Let yourself be seduced by the mythical or real stories, the happy or thwarted loves evoked in the museum's works.
To be or to appear
A tour focusing on the museum's rich portrait collection, including the exceptional 18th-century pastel cabinet, and the evolution of this genre over the centuries. From highly codified official portraits to more intimate works, this tour addresses the weight of social conventions, the question of the work's destination and the relationship between artist and patron.
Antique inspiration
Greco-Roman antiquity has been an essential source of inspiration for artists since the Renaissance. This stroll through the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts reveals the diversity of stylistic and thematic approaches over the centuries.
Painted women
Artists, muses, models or heroines, this tour highlights the women in the museum's collections. A different kind of art history, between invisibility and assertion, in which women sometimes take center stage and sometimes sit behind the easel.
From art to pen
At the confluence of painting and literature, this reading tour combines paintings from the collections with literary excerpts. Art criticism, poetry, novels; from Denis Diderot to Emile Zola and from Jean-Baptiste Chardin to Auguste Rodin, (re)discover works of art through the pen of writers.
Romantic sensibilities
In the words of Charles Baudelaire: "Romanticism is precisely neither in the choice of subjects nor in the exact truth, but in the way of feeling." This tour explores what makes up the Romantic sensibility. Portraits, landscapes, historical and literary subjects: between the quest for the sublime and a new freedom of expression, we'll see how Romantic artists revolutionized the art of their time.
Other topics
All requests will be considered in relation to the collections or temporary exhibitions.
Themes at Hotel Cabu
Proposed themes are: the museum's must-sees or temporary exhibitions. All other thematic requests will be considered in the light of the collections.