Caen - Museums

In Caen, in Rue de Geôle, which runs along the west side of the castle, is the Maison des Quatrans (No. 31), a handsome half-timbered house built in 1381. Within the precincts of the castle are the chapel of St-Georges (12th and 15th C), with a Romanesque nave; the Musée des Beaux-Arts (1960), with pictures by Rogier van der Weyden, Tintoretto, Rubens, Courbet and Boudin and faience from Rouen, Nevers and Strasbourg; the Musée de Normandie (a museum of regional interest, with exhibits illustrating the history of Normandy); and the Salle de l'Echiquier, a splendid Romanesque building in which the Council of Normandy used to meet.