Museum of Fine Arts in Chartres

Wonderful building, small but perfectly formed. At the same time as our visit there was an orchestra....a must visit for lovers of art and architecture!

Small museum with very few paintings that worth to see. Building is nice but in pour condition. Art lovers can skip it, better spend more time in cathedral than is really a gem.

Good small museum in the backyard of the cathedral, free visit with religious and local arts.

Have been meaning to visit this lical museum with 20+ years and finally did it. It is a beautifully preserved building just beside the cathedrale with impressive entrance hall and stairs, reception room and chapel. The art exhibition is interesting to see if not spectacular. We passed a very pleasant hour discovering the museum. Entrance fee is very reasonable.

This is the building of that what locals call Le Musee des Beaux-Arts de Chartres or the Museum of Fine Arts of Chartres. This is no big but excellent Museum situated just next door to famous cathedral because you can find there personal belongings or artifacts attributed as personal belongings of poor King Charles VI of France (1368-1422). Insanity of this king ruined his personal life and the entire Kingdom of France and untied hands to his uncles and couzen. Their political struggle created two powerful factions of Armagnacs and Bourguignons, caused mutual murders of rivals, and at last brought entire country to open civil wars. So, the main purpose of my visit was to see the gambeson of King Charles VI! It was the funniest visit for all my life! French museum workers didn't understand French word gambeson! Can you imagine?! Even when I explained that this is a padded defensive jacket of XIV-XV centuries usually worn over or under the armor, even then they couldn't understand. At last, I just took a piece of paper and a pen and drew a gambeson! Museum people gladly and with wide smiles started nodding and saying, "Yes, yes! It is here!" Where? And they answered "in the storage!" So, the most precious artifact is in the storage room! So, I have covered 2800 kilometers just to discover that fact! But my travel was worth of seeing houndskull helmet and haubergion allegedly belonged to Charles VI! Museum of Fine Arts, Chartres, Eur-et-Loir, 🇫🇷 France 🇫🇷. January 5, 2015.

My wife uses a wheelchair and it was completely inaccessable

Absolutely not worth the price of entry! A rather sad collection in a neglected space

No charge to enter, nice paintings