Goya Museum

[1] The museum was originally established in 1840 and was named after the Spanish painter Francisco Goya since it has been specialised in hispanic art, since 1947.

The museum holds 5000 pieces of art comprising 420 French paintings and a collection of 612 weapons.

[2] But it is mainly dedicated to Spanish art with the largest collection in France, including 200 paintings,[3][4] against 173 in the Louvre,[5][6] as well as 140 sculptures, coins from Antiquity to the 19th c. and nearly 1000 drawings and prints, like the complete four series of Goya (Caprichos, Disasters of War, Los Disparates and La Tauromaquia), the Gaudí serie by Joan Miró and 83 prints by Salvador Dalí.

Its paintings range from the 14th century to the present day, with Francisco Goya himself represented by three paintings given by the son of the painter Marcel Briguiboul in 1894, The Junta of the Philippines (c. 1815, Goya's largest work), Self-Portrait with Spectacles (in French) (c. 1800) and Portrait of Francisco del Mazo (in French) (c. 1815-1820).

The completely refurbished museum reopened on 15 April 2023 with 23 rooms on 1500 m2 and an exhibition hall in the contiguous former abbey of Les Cèdres.