Musée Hôtel Le Vergeur

Reims


Highlights in this 15th-century townhouse include a series of furnished period rooms (kitchen, smoking room, Napoléon III’s bedroom), some 50 wood engravings by Albrecht Dürer and a stunning Renaissance façade facing the interior garden.


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