Beaune - Museums

Visitors to Beaune will want to see the Museum in the old Hôtel des Ducs de Bourgogne, the town house of the Dukes of Burgundy which later passed into the hands of the French kings.

The Musée des Beaux-Arts, housed in part of the 18th century Town Hall (originally an Ursuline convent), displays archeological finds from the surrounding area, French and Flemish paintings of the 17th-19th centuries and the apparatus used by a scientist named Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904), a native of Beaune who invented "chronophotography", a predecessor of the cinematograph. Beaune has a number of 16th C houses, particularly in Rue de Lorraine, which are now owned by the municipality.