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Archaeological Museum
The Musée Archéologique displays some truly surprising Celtic, Roman and Merovingian artefacts, including a particularly fine 1st-century bronze of the goddess Sequana standing on a boat. Upstairs is an early-Gothic hall which once served as the dormitory of a Benedictine Abbey. Its splendid ogival arches are held aloft by two rows of columns.
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Musée Archéologique
The Musée Archéologique displays some truly surprising Celtic, Roman and Merovingian artefacts, including a particularly fine 1st-century bronze of the goddess Sequana standing on a boat. Upstairs, the early-Gothic hall (12th and 13th centuries), with its ogival arches held aloft by two rows of columns, once served as the dormitory of a Benedictine abbey.
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Musée de la Moutarde
Homage to Dijon's most famous export can be paid at the Musée de la Moutarde. Reserve at the tourist office.
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Musée de la Vie Bourguignonne
The Musée de la Vie Bourguignonne, in a 17th-century Cistercian convent, explores village and town life in Burgundy in centuries past with evocative tableaux illustrating dress, headgear, cooking, traditional crafts and the like.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts
Housed in the eastern wing of the Palais des Ducs, the Musée des Beaux-Arts is one of the most outstanding museums in France. The wood-panelled Salle des Gardes (Guards' Room), once warmed by a gargantuan fireplace that's as Gothic as Gothic can be, houses three impossibly intricate gilded Gothic retables from the 1300s and the late-medieval sepulchres of two Valois dukes.
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