19 and 20 September

September 2026

Saturday 19
- 10:00 - 18:00
Sunday 20
- 10:00 - 18:00

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Motor impairment

Musée d’Art moderne

14 place Saint-Pierre, 10000 Troyes

Aube

Grand Est

Self-guided tour of the modern art museum

Name: Self-guided tour of the modern art museum
Start: 2026-09-19T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-20T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée d’Art moderne

Enjoy a free visit of the museum to discover the painter André Derain and the glassmaker Maurice Marinot, close friends of the Lévy, who are widely represented in this museum, alongside...

19 and 20 September

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Motor impairment

Enjoy a free visit of the museum to discover the painter André Derain and the glassmaker Maurice Marinot, close friends of the Lévy, who are widely represented in this museum, alongside great artists of modernity such as Courbet, Braque, Gris, Soutine, Modigliani, Dufresne, La Fresnaye, Buffet, Balthus or De Staël.

September 2026

Saturday 19
- 10:00 - 18:00
Sunday 20
- 10:00 - 18:00

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Journées Européennes du Patrimoine

About the location

Musée d’Art moderne

14 place Saint-Pierre, 10000 Troyes

Aube

Grand Est

The modern art museum was created following donation in 1976, big(great) collectors, Pierre and Denise Lévy, Trojan industrialists of the textile(textile industry). Installed(Settled) in the old(former) episcopal palace (16th and 17th centuries) in 1982, the collection illustrates someone big moments with art in France since environment(middle) from the 19th century to 1960s. She(It) understands(includes) paintings(cloths) of Honoré Daumier, Gustave Courbet, of works of Nabis as Edward Vuillard or Pierre Bonnard, the exceptional whole Fawn movement: André Derain, Georges Braque, Maurice Vlaminck, Othon Friesz or else the School of Paris represented by Chaïm Soutine or Amedeo Modigliani Derain dominates this set(group) with about 80 paintings(cloths). Other big(great) signatures, Henry Matisse, Raul Dufy, Robert Delaunay, Nicolas de Staël, Balthus, Georges Rouault supplement this panorama of the French painting(paint) of the first half of the 20th century. The sculpture is represented well with Edgar Degas, Aristide Maillol or else Joseph Czaky, Ossip Zadkine, Charles Despiau, unique(only) bronze set(group) of Derain without forgetting Picasso and his famous Madman (1905), for whom the poet Max Jacob rested(posed). Art deco glass factories(glass-making) of Maurice Marinot, glass factories(glass-making) (more than 140 rooms(parts,plays) from 1912 till 1937) which train(form) to a collection of exception themselves, reveal the completely innovative work of this artist of Trojan origin and friend of donors. Some ceramics of Emile Lenoble, André Metthey, or of the workshop(studio) of Madoura-Vallauris are added to it. The primitive(initial) art, certain rooms(parts,plays) of which belonged to artists such Derain or to big(great) amateur traders (Ambroise Vollard, Félix Fénéon, Paul Guillaume) gives a perspective, wanted by the donors, on relations between modern art and Africain art.

September 2026

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Freie Besichtigung des Museums für moderne Kunst

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Self-guided tour of the modern art museum

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Visita libera del museo d'arte moderna

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Visite libre du musée d'art moderne

This event includes accessibility accommodations

Visita libre del museo de arte moderno

This event includes accessibility accommodations

September 2026