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Discover / Sites to see / Museums
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 The Museum of Fine Arts
 
Founded in 1835, the museum was destroyed in 1944 – only the picture collection and the tapestries were saved from the bombing of June 6. The new museum was opened in 1989 within the Jean Lurçat Cultural Centre, allowing the visitor to discover the collection in a contemporary architectural setting .
Among the many works owned by the museum, paintings by Corot, Eugène Boudin, Millet, Moreau and Léger are most likely to catch the eye.
The tapestries are displayed in a number of separate rooms, including the rotunda. The visitor can trace the history of tapestry-making to the present day creations of Picart, le Doux, Wogensky, Grau-Garriga, Martegot and Jean Lurçat. The most famous of them all is the 16th century tapestry entitled “The Colours of the Loves of Gombault and Macée”: the first eight in the series were woven in Bruges, the ninth in Aubusson.
The Graphic Arts Room displays works by Géricault, Tiepolo, Daniel saint, Gustave Doré. The ‘Cross of saint-Lô”, a jewel in gold and quartz dating from the end of the 18Th century, was offered by the Association of Friends of the Municipal Museum in 1995.
The history of the town is evoked through a collection of religious objects (the Hospital Lady Chapel, the church of Saint Thomas), a gold and silver coin collection all minted in Saint-Lô between 1422 and 1693 donated by the Octave Feuillet foundation and by the fund consecrated to the poet Jean Follain born in Canisy in 1903.
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Open daily except Tuesdays 10-12; 2pm – 6pm
Entrance: 1e50 adults, children under 18 and groups over 15 in number, half price; children under 10 years old free.
Centre culturel Jean Lurçat, Place du Champ de Mars, 50 000 Saint-Lô.
Tél : 02 33 77 52 55 |
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The Normandy Bocage Museum - The Boisjugan farm
Since 1989 these huge 17th and 19th century stone farm buildings have housed the Normandy Bocage Museum: the great rectangular farmyard, typical of the Saint-Lô area, is framed by the farmhouse, cider press, stables, barn, bakery, garden and pond.
An important collection of over 2300 farming tools and products of Norman craftsmanship displayed in four rooms retraces traditional life in the ‘bocage´. The dining room brings together everyday household items, furniture and dress. Farming tools and crafted objects are displayed in the old washhouse. The upper floor exhibits dairy farming and bee-keeping. The barn and superb vaulted stables are used for temporary exhibitions.
Every year the great ‘Butter Fair´ provides an opportunity for local craftsmen to revive in a traditional setting, animated by folk dancers and musicians, the skills of former times such as the preparation of butter, the baking of bread, threshing, and the harnessing of horses.
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