Grenoble - Museums

The Musée des Beaux-Arts, in the Place de Verdun in Grenoble, is one of the most important museums in France. The old masters are well represented by Palmezzano, Le Pérugin, Veronese, Tintoretto, P. Brueghel, Cranach, Rubens, Velásquez, Murillo, Goya, Doerer, Zurbarán and many others; the moderns are not forgotten, either, with works by von Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir, Monet, Sisley, Signac, Vlaminck, Matisse, Miró, Ernst, Tanguy, Mathieu, Soutine, Modigliani, Derain, Picasso, Delaunay, Braque, Léger, Fautrier and Giacometti. Contemporary artists include Morellet, Paolozzi, Cane, Sol Lewitt, Sam Francis and Wesselman. The museum also houses an important Egyptian collection.

Also of interest are the Musée Dauphinois (history and culture of the Dauphiné), the Musée Hébert (works by the 19th C painter of that name), a museum, in the house where Stendhal was born, which deals with the story of the French Resistance, and the Natural History Museum (fauna of the Alps, mineralogy).