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Information about the museums in tours

Museums
Musée de Campagnonnage

Open Jan to March Tues - Sun; April - mid June and mid Sept to Dec Wed - Mon; mid June to mid Sept daily

02.47.61.07.93

An unusual musuem showing pieces made by travelling craftsmen (compagnons) covering many trades ranging from stonemason to coopers to clog-makers.
Musée des Beaux Arts

Open Wed. to Mon. except public holidays

02.47.05.68.73

Housed in a the Archbishop’s Palace dating from17th - 18th century, the museum is set in a formal garden with a two hundred year old Cedar of Lebanon. The gate, originally at the entrance to the rue Royale, was built in 1688 for Louis XIV, were placed here in 1775.
The paintings housed in this museum range from the middle ages to contemproary and includes two altarpieces - The Resurrection and Christ in the Olive Grove painted by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) for the church of San Zeno in Verona 1456 and 1460. In one of the rooms of the museum that Napoleon, returning from Spaon, spent the night of 12th August 1808.

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The museum is set in a tranquil formal garden, which has a very old cedar tree in it.

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