Musée de Picardie

Its collections include artifacts ranging from prehistory to the 19th century, and form one of the largest regional museums in France.

It was built thanks to the Société des Antiquaires de Picardie, keen to give the city somewhere to house the collections the society had gathered over decades.

A prototype for other French regional museums, it was France's first building constructed exclusively for the purpose of conservation and exhibition of artworks.

[1] Housed in the basement, archaeological collections include artifacts from: The museum is home to the mummified remains of an Egpytian woman named Setjaïmengaou.

[6] It was believed to have destroyed in bombing in 1918 during World War I and was part of the Musée de Picardie's collection that had been evacuated to the Louvre for safekeeping.