Avignon Museums

In the description for each museum (below), click on the photo to access a photo gallery for that museum.
Angladon Museum Photos
Calvet Museum Photos
Lapidaire Museum Photos
Requien Museum Photos
Roure Palace Museum Photos
Lambert Museum Photos

Angladon Museum

A rich art collection with some of the most prestigious signatures, in the private home of the art lovers who inherited them.

Location: 5 rue Laboureur; 1 block east, half north of Lapidaire Museum

Open: Wed-Sun, 13h-18h; Summer 13h-19h

Entry: 6 euros; 7-12: 1.5€; under 7 free

Tel: 0490 822 903; Fax: 0490 857 807

Web: www.angladon.com/

The 19th-century and 20th-century collections are on the ground floor. The older collections, displayed in the original family rooms on the upper floor. There's a large staircase and no elevator.

Calvet Museum - Musée Calvet

A small 18th-century mansion, with classical and modern art, Greek sculpture and a local prehistorical collection.

Location: 65 Rue Joseph Vernet; 3 blocks west, 3-4 south south of Place de l'Horloge

Open: 10h à 13h, 14h à 18h - Closed Tuesday

Entry: Free

Tel: 0490 863 384

Web: www.musee-calvet-avignon.com

Lambert Museum

In the 18th-century hotel particulier, Hotel de Caumont, with four floors of exhibition rooms (including a low attic room).

Location: 5 Rue Violette

Open: July-Aug, daily 11h-19h; Sept-June, Tue-Sun 11h-18h.

Closed: Sept-June closed Mon; also 1 May, 25 Dec, 1 Jan.

Entry: 8 euros (2019)

Tel: 0490 165 620

Lapidaire Museum - Musée Lapidaire

Located in the chapel of the 17th-century Jesuit College. Contains stone carvings and sculptures from the different civilizations, including a "bestiary", and extensive Roman artifacts.
   Two ancient Provencal items we liked were: The Lion of Mornas, a monster animal crouched over a severed head, found in the village of Mornas; and the flesh-eating monster called the Tarasque de Noves, from the village of Noves (about 20 km northeast of Tarascon, known for its Tarasque monster.

Location: Chapelle des Jésuites, 27 Rue de la République; 2 blocks east, 1 south of the Calvet museum; 3-4 blocks south of Place de l'Horloge

Open: 10h à 13h et de 14h à 18h - Closed Monday

Entry: Free

Tel: 0490 847 538

Web: www.musee-calvet-avignon.com

Louis Vouland Museum - Musée

Decorative arts, especially for 18th-century French furnishings, porcelain and faience and tapestries.

Petit Palais Museum

This museum and art gallery is in the beautiful 14th-century "Small Palace", just north of (and named "petit" to distinguish it from) the the Pope's Palace. It has a great collection of Renaissance paintings, of the Avignon school and from Italy.

Location: Palais des archevêques, Place du Palais des Papes

Open: Daily, except Tuesday: 10h-13h, 14h-18h

Closed: 1 Jan, 1 May, 25 Dec

Entry: Free

Tel: 0490 864 458

Web: www.petit-palais.org/

Requien Museum - Musée Requien

This is a small and very nicely presented Geological and Natural History museum, with many of the displays keyed to the natural and geological history of Provence.

Location: 67 Rue Joseph Vernet; Beside (south of) the Calvet Museum

Entry: Free

Tel: 0490 824 351

Web: www.museum-requien.org

Roure Palace Museum

A 15th-century hotel particulier on an enclosed cobblestone courtyard, with period furnished rooms and art museum. Frédéric Mistral was a frequent visitor.

Location: 3, Rue du Collège of the Roure — a small street by the southwest corner of the Place de l'Horloge.;

Open: All year, Tue-Sat; 10h-13h, 14h-18h.

Closed: Sun-Mon, holidays

Entry: Free

Tel: 0413 605 001