Amiens - Musée de Picardie

A little way south of Place Gambetta in Amiens, in Rue de la République, is the Musée de Picardie, housed in a Second Empire building (1855-1867) with large murals by Puvis de Chavannes in the stair-well. It is one of the 10 largest provincial museums in France, with archeological material (prehistoric, Gallo-Roman, Egyptian and Merovingian) from the region and from the Mediterranean area, works by the Puy Notre-Dame d'Amiens, a pious confraternity (15th-16th C), works of the Flemish and Dutch schools of the 17th-19th centuries and the 18th C French school, 19th C sculpture and a small collection of modern art (Manessier, Hélion, Dubuffet, Jorn, etc.).