Dijon - Musée des Beaux-Arts

The east wing of the Ducal Palace in Dijon is occupied by the Musée des Beaux-Arts, one of France's leading art museums. On the ground floor are displays illustrating the history of the building and the museum and a collection of medieval and Renaissance Burgundian sculpture. In the old palace kitchen are six large fireplaces. The first floor is devoted to painting and sculpture: medieval Flemish, Swiss and German painting, Italian pictures of the 14th-18th centuries, Flemish and Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries, French pictures of the 16th-20th centuries and sculpture of the 15th-20th centuries. In the Salle des Gardes are the tombs of two Dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Bold and John the Fearless, and altarpieces from the