The town of Chambéry had a collection of art in one of the rooms of the Hôtel de Ville (city hall), open to the public in 1783.

The municipality charged the architect François Pelaz with converting the former granary at the entrance to the town into the new museum.

[1] The people of Chambéry had been invited to talk about the annexation of Savoy to France (1860 Treaty of Turin) on the ground floor of this building.

In 1911 the Musée Savoisien was established in the buildings of the bishop's palace, awarded to the city following the law of separation of Church and State.

They include an outstanding altarpiece of the Trinity by Bartolo di Fredi, a Sienese artist of the fourteenth century.