The museum is housed in a dependency of the Palais Rohan in central Bordeaux.

In front of the building, there is the Galerie des Beaux-Arts, where temporary exhibitions are housed.

Established in 1801[2] by the painter Pierre Lacour,[3] it is one of the largest art galleries in France outside Paris.

[4] First hosted in a library and then in a room of the town hall, the collection was moved into the current building after its construction from 1875 to 1881.

Here is a list of some of the painters represented in the museum collections: Media related to Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux at Wikimedia Commons