Museums and Monuments of Avignon
Palais des Papes
Place du Palais
Information: 04.90.27.50.73 & 74
Museum and exhibits hours: Daily: 9:30am – 5:45pm
Home to 9 Popes of the 14th century, this fortified Palace is symbolic of the Church’s influence over the Western world during that time. The Palace is full of halls and rooms, corridors and staircases that take you from one end to the other. Mostly cleared out of any sumptuous or lavish catholic decorations, you can still get a hint from the frescoes and a feel for the Papal life that was once carried on in the laregest existing Gothic palace in the world.
Musée du Petit Palais
Place du Palais des Papes
Information: 04.90.86.44.58
Museum and exhibits hours:October – May: 9:30am – 1pm, and 2pm – 5:30pm; June – September: 10am – 1pm, and 2pm – 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Excellent collection of 13th – 16th century Italian religious paintings, Avignon Romanesque and Gothic sculpture, and paintings from the Avignon school. Among them are works by Botticelli, Carpaccio, and Giovanni di Paolo. Some of the altar pieces are exquisite.
Pont Saint Bénézet
rue Ferruce
Information: 04.90.85.60.16
Museum and exhibits hours:November – March: 9:30am – 5:45pm; April thru October: 9am – 7pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Read the story. A 12th century bridge that was the only crossing over the natural boundary between th Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Germanic Empire. The legend is that the sheephearder Bénézet heard divine voices instructing him to build the bridge. The bridge was destroyed by Louis VIII during the Albigensian Crusade and was rebuilt in the late 13th century. Raging flood water continually damaged the bridge until it was finally abandoned in the 17th century. It includes a small chapel dedicated to Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of bargemen.
Angladon Museum
5 rue Laboureur
Information: 04.90.82.29.03
Museum and exhibits hours:W – Su: 1pm – 6pm
This private home turned museum holds some wonderful pieces from the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the names on the walls of this museum are Degas, Van Gogh, Manet, Picasso, Modigliani …
Musée Calvet
65 rue Joseph Vernet
Information: 04.90.86.33.84
Museum and exhibits hours: W-M: 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Collection of 15th to 20th century works of art. A lot of figurative sculpture.
Archaeology Museum
27 rue de la République
Information: 04.90.85.75.38
Museum and exhibits hours: W-M: 10am – 1pm and 2pm – 6pm. Closed Tuesdays.
Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, and Gallo-Roman sculptures and objects from the Calvet Museum.
Collection Lambert / Contemporary Art Museum
5 rue Violette
Information: 04.90.16.56.20
Museum and exhibits hours: T-Su: 11am – 7pm. Closed Mondays.
Over 450 pieces of artwork that represent the major art trends from the end of the 60′s until today.
Louis Vouland Museum
7 rue Victor Hugo
Information: 04.90.86.03.79
Museum and exhibits hours:Check for hours
Decorative arts from the 17th and 18th centuries.
