Ahh, another great art gallery, and it is a little bigger than the one that I visited in Arras. The…read moregallery is actually a mix between an archeological museum and a art gallery, and is divided into various rooms. One of the rooms is decated to paintings, another to sculptures, and another room dedicated to religious art, and in the basement you have the archeological museum which explores all of the stuff dug up in the area as well as the evolution of Amiens from Roman times. There is also an upstairs area, but that was still being retrofitted so there wasn't a huge amount of stuff here. Still, it was definitely a pretty awesome museum, and while the collection wasn't as large compared to some museums, there is still enough here to keep you engaged.

From the owner: Une belle collection régionale Construit de 1855 a 1867 par ordre de Napoléon III, le musée de…read morePicardie figure parmi les dix plus grands musées Français de province pour la richesse de ses collections en archéologie, peinture, et sculpture. La plupart des collections proviennent de fouilles régionales. Parmi les oeuvres, on trouve des pièces datant du Moyen-Age et provenant de la cathédrale d'Amiens. L'art contemporain est également représenté avec une des oeuvres de Sol Le Witt.

Well done. Starts with a video. Then you can walk around the museum upstairs. It's free to Vets…read more The part we really wanted to see was the map room. It is being well preserved. The chairs are marked with the names that sat there. Can you imagine what it was like in this room? Can you imagine the smell?

Yes Reims has a lot for you to see but this is the must go to place…read more The Reddition is where the first German surrender signing took place before the second signing in Berlin (because Stalin felt a bit left out). You start with a 20 minute film which is excellent and very informative, then you go upstairs to see the war room and the actual signing room itself...there are also plenty of exhibits The film also talks about why this building - a school - was used, that it was the HQ of SHEAF first. I thought I knew my history but this is a great addition The only downside, lots of school kids outside smoking and not just tobacco or vaping...!

The Arras Art Museum is actually located in a former monestary, and while it isn't as large as some…read moreof the places that I have visited, it still takes up a little over three floors of one of the wings (though parts of the gallery extend into other wings). Since Arras isn't that huge, the gallery contains a mixture of art from across the ages, though a lot of it does tend to be medieval and early modern with a smattering of paintings and objets d'art. Mind you, I'm not actually that particularly interested in decorative art, however there were quite a number of pretty awesome paintings, including some incredibly large ones at that. The tickets aren't all that pricey either, so if for some reason you find yourself in Arras then it is certainly worth checking out.

From the owner: Une collection riche et diversifiée Installé dans une partie de l'Abbaye Saint-Vaast, le musée…read moremunicipal est riche d'une collection assez bien étoffée puisque au rez-de-chaussée on peut découvrir des oeuvres d'arts funéraire et sacrées dont quelques-unes ayant trait à l'histoire du diocèse d'Arras. Il renferme ainsi le Trésor de la Cathédrale de l'ancien musée diocésien. Au premier étage, sont exposées les toiles des écoles françaises et flamandes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles tandis que le second est occupé par des toiles du XIXe dont certaines de l'école d'Arras. Un échantillon assez large de l'histoire de l'art tout à l'honneur de la ville d'Arras qui consacre à la culture une attention certaine.

From the owner: De nombreuses oeuvres d'art dans une architecture originale Situé à Cateau-Cambrésis, ville natale…read moredu peintre à équidistance (30 kms) de Cambrai, Saint-Quentin et Valenciennes, le Musée Matisse, créé en novembre 1952 par Matisse lui-même, a réouvert ses portes le 8 novembre 2002 après trois longues années de transformation par les architectes Emmanuelle et Laurent Beaudouin. Un musée résolument contemporain gage du développement culturel de la région Nord. Il possède 247 livres et quelques 500 gravures de divers peintres. En 2008, le musée a reçu la donation "Alice Tériade", venue enrichir les collections permanentes. 39 oeuvres parmi lesquelles des peintures de Matisse, Picasso, Giacometti, Chagall ou encore Léger.

Museums that gives you some insights into what the soldiers faced and experience in the trenches by…read moreputting you down in an underground passageway. Film at the beginning isn't so much an intro to the museum as a promotional film for other nearby WWI sites.

This museum has been carved out of some tunnels that snaked under the town of Albert. The museum…read morebegins next to the church and comes out at the gardens. I discovered it when I received some discount tickets from the Carrarie Wellington and was a little disappointed that we were going to miss out on it. It turned out that I was going to be quite lucky because the tour we went on took us down there. The museum, like a lot of similar museums in the region, consists of lots of stuff that had been picked up and dug up over the years and has been sorted into a a semblance of order. The other interesting thing was that the church it is under was hit by a shell in the early days of the war, by the steeple didn't collapse - it just hung there. There was then a theory that when the steeple collapsed thenn the war would come to an end. Also, the troups would pass under it on the way to the front, and did so as a form of blessing.

From the owner: La dentelle, une tradition à Caudry Le village de Caudry dont l'économie tourna longtemps autour de…read morela dentelle, dispose d'un musée qui retrace plus de 150 ans de savoir-faire et de traditions dentellières. Installé dans un atelier du 19ème siècle, toujours en activité, le musée propose une riche collection de robes, de parures et d'accessoires de mode.