Restoring collections is one of the most essential tasks of a museum, ensuring that works are properly preserved and perfectly legible, but also sometimes saving them! The monumental 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘥’𝘏𝘪𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘺𝘵𝘦 on display […]
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— December 4, 2025
Works by Orléans sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) are rare outside the studio collection, which Jim Ede divided up after the war between the collections of the MBA in Orléans, the Centre Pompidou and Kettle's Yard in Cambridge. The museum was able to acquire [...]
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- Nov 27, 2025
The masterpiece by Belgian artist François-Joseph Navez, L'Obole de la veuve, painted by this pupil of David in 1840, has just been donated to the Musée d'Orléans, subject to usufruct, by Antoine Béal, a generous donor to French museums, well known to the Musée [...].
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- Nov 3, 2025
Restorations sometimes hold surprises. La Jeune paysanne by Salomon de Bray, a masterpiece acquired in 1907 as a painting by Jacob Jordaens, revealed numerous overpaints during its restoration by the Arcanes workshop... A major acquisition In [...]
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- Oct 24, 2025
After an absence of over one hundred years, the anonymous painting Christ entre saint Paul et Apollos d'Alexandrie (1546) returns to the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, sealing the happy outcome of a long quest! When the painting appeared on the [...] market, the [...
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- Sep 18, 2025
The hanging of large-format works is always a special moment in the life of a museum. Behind these spectacular operations lies a real know-how: that of the technical team at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, specially trained to handle and install large [...]
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- August 29, 2025
Following the first part of the exhibition Johan Creten. Playing with fire (March 23 - September 22, 2024), the artist offers the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans ten emblematic drawings spanning his entire career. Since the [...]
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- August 22, 2025
Because a museum would not be fully a convivial place without its café, the Musée des Beaux-Arts, following a call for projects, is opening an ephemeral café for the summer period, offering a space under the arcades for [...].
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- August 1, 2025
The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans has just enriched its photographic collection with an exceptional piece: a rare albumen print dating from 1857, depicting Orléans' Sainte-Croix cathedral, by the Bisson brothers, Louis-Auguste and Auguste-Rosalie. These two pioneers of [...]
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- June 13, 2025
The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans recently received a precious gift: Vue d'Orléans et de la Loire depuis la rive gauche, a panoramic view of Orléans and the Loire River, painted around 1827-1830 by landscape artist Christophe Civeton [...].
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- June 6, 2025
The history of art is often made up of exciting rediscoveries... In 2017, the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans put the spotlight back on an artist long forgotten by history, remaining off the radar of posterity despite his prominent place: [...]
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- May 30, 2025
On April 22, 2025, the Museums of Orléans and the Friends of the Museums launched a fund-raising campaign to acquire a painting by Jean-Antoine Laurent, who in 1819 captured the memory of his visit to [...].
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- May 6, 2025