Rouen - Museums

This museum contains a display of 17th to 19th C medical equipment.

The Musée de le Céramique, housed in the former Hôtel d'Hocqueville (1657), has one Europe's richest collections of ceramics.

In Rouen, on the east side of the tree-planted Square Verdrel is the Musée des Beaux-Arts, one of the finest provincial museums in France, with a notable collection of 16th to 20th C. pictures, including works by David, Rubens, Veronese, Caravaggio, Ribera, Velázquez, Clouet, Poussin, Fragonard, Ingres, Géricault, Delacroix, Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Dufy, Duchamp, Soulage and Dubuffet.

In the old Gothic church of St-Laurent is the Musée Le Secq de Tournelles, with a unique collection of wrought-iron work, including grilles, signs, doors, locks and clocks. Nearby stands the Gothic church of St-Godard (15th C.), with magnificent stained glass, including a "Tree of Jesus" in the Lady Chapel.