Museum sights in The Loire
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Fine Arts Museum
In the Fine Arts Museum objects illustrating the history of Angers are gorgeously displayed on the ground floor. Upstairs, the paintings - none of them consciousness-changing but many of them excellent - include some compelling Italian works from the first half of the 1800s.
Here you will find the dramatic, Dante-inspired Paolo et Francesca by Jean-August-Dominique Ingres, in which Francesca's elderly and deformed husband, a homicidal look on his face, discovers his wife in the arms of his younger brother Paoli (in one of the two red rooms). Audioguides are being prepared.
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Tenture de l'Apocalypse
The magnificent Tenture de l'Apocalypse is a 101m-long series of 70 tapestries, commissioned by Louis I, Duke of Anjou, in 1375 to illustrate the Revelation to John - the last book of the New Testament. From June to August free guided tours begin at 10:30 and 16:00. There are plans to introduce free audioguides. Tapestry of the Apocalypse at Angers: Front and Back (around €33), available in the gift shop, explains all, scene by scene. Ticket sales end 45 minutes before closing.
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Galerie David d'Angers
Larger-than-life sculptures by Angers-born sculptor David d'Angers (1788-1856) are displayed in Galerie David d'Angers, housed in a 12th-century abbey church transformed into contemporary architecture in the early 1980s. The cloister next door leads to a garden overlooked by Nikki de St-Phalle's colourful Serpent Tree, a children's playground (behind the library) and the Musée des Beaux-Arts.
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Cointreau Museum
At the Cointreau Museum you won't discover the top-secret recipe for the famous orange liqueur - every bottle of which is made right here - but you will find yourself inhaling some pretty intoxicating aromas. The 13:30 tour in July and August is in English. The museum is off the ring road to the east of Angers. By bus, take No 7 from the train station.
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House of Magic
Facing the chateau and dedicated to the all-time great, Blois-born magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin - after whom the escapist Houdini named himself - the Maison de la Magie museum features interactive exhibits and fascinating clocks invented by Robert-Houdin. Be sure not to miss a trick at the magic show.
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Jean Lurçat Museum of Contemporary Tapestry
Ensconced in the opulent, Gothic-vaulted sick wards of a one-time hospital (1180-1865), the Jean Lurçat Museum of Contemporary Tapestry showcases monumental 20th-century tapestries by Jean Lurçat, Thomas Gleb and others.
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