Musée des Augustins in Toulouse
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Musée des Augustins

Toulouse · France · Founded 1795

Toulouse's fine-art museum housed in a fourteenth-century Augustinian monastery in the heart of the pink city.

About Musée des Augustins

Established in 1795 in the cloisters of a former Augustinian monastery, the museum is one of the oldest in France. The medieval architecture frames a remarkable collection of Romanesque sculpture from the great cloisters of Toulouse.

Painting galleries trace European art from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, with works by Rubens, Delacroix, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Vuillard.

Collections & Highlights

Romanesque cloister capitals
Crucifixion by Rubens
Salon Rouge of nineteenth-century paintings
Augustinian church nave

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