Municipal Museum of Bourg-en-Bresse
The Municipal Museum of Bourg-en-Bresse, sometimes known as the Brou museum, Musée du Monastère Royal de Brou or Beaux-Arts Museum is an art museum located inside the Monastery of Brou in France. The collections include painting, particularly Flemish and French, from the 15th century to the modern era. Sculpture is also represented, especially ancient religious sculpture. Location The museum is located in one of the wings of the second of the three cloisters in the Monastery of Brou, in Bourg-en-Bresse prefecture of the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. The museum covers 6,000m2. History The museum was founded in 1854. The main collection of the museum was originally made up of 120 paintings donated in the middle of the 19th century by Thomas Riboud [FR] (1765–1835), lawyer and deputy of Ain who saved the abbey from destruction and protected it as a national monument. As of 2022, 434 items were on display. Collections Flemish and Dutch paintings The collection of Flemish and Dutch paintings includes four paintings by the official painter of the Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, two of which are the portraits of young Charles V and Margaret of Austria, the founder of the monastery