Musée des Beaux-Arts de Béziers

The Musée des Beaux-Arts is a museum in Béziers, founded by the town's archaeological, scientific and literary society and opened to the public in the Hôtel de ville in 1859.

In 1966 Gustave Fayet's family gave their hôtel particulier at 9 rue du Capus to the town and early in the 1980s that building became an annexe to the museum, mainly housing the works by the sculptor Jean-Antoine Injalbert which were left to the town by his widow in 1934.

By 2030 an art and history museum will occupy the former episcopal palace after it was vacated by the Palais de Justice.

[2] It was given the subtitle of 'Maisons des Illustres' in 2019 in memory of Fayet and houses 19th century paintings and sculptures as well as the Injalbert works.

Works on show in that building before its closure included: That building also housed works by Edgar Degas, Raoul Dufy, Francisco de Herrera the Elder, Eugène Isabey, Théodore Rousseau * Auguste Rodin, Ker Xavier Roussel, Chaïm Soutine, Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, Suzanne Valadon and the orientalist painter Odette du Bosch.