Heritage Days 2024: tours of the basement at Château de Nemours (77)

Looking for a great Heritage Days outing? The Château-Musée de Nemours invites you to discover its treasures and secrets through an exciting program. It's the perfect way to make the most of this not-to-be-missed cultural event, which invites you to discover our heritage in a whole new way, with visits and events - often free of charge - in museums, monuments, châteaux and even places not usually open to the public. And, of course, the whole of the Île-de-France region gets in on the act!

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Whether you're looking for a program near you, or you'd like to explore the region's heritage, Seine-et-Marne has plenty to offer, including the famous Château-Musée de Nemours.

A major medieval building in the Île-de-France region, Château de Nemours was built in the mid-12th century by Gauthier 1er de Villebéon. It has been listed as a Monument Historique in its entirety since 1977 (the chapel since 1926), and has been a museum since 1903. Throughout the year, two temporary exhibitions follow one another at the Musée de France. In all, 20,000 works of art make up the collections of this fine museum, including paintings, sculptures, graphic art, photographs and other works of decorative art.

The program for Heritage Days 2024 at the Château de Nemours in Seine-et-Marne:

• Château-Musée basement opening
  September 21 and 22
  

  The European Heritage Days are an opportunity for visitors to discover the basement of the Château-Musée. Usually closed, the space will be open to the curious. A unique opportunity to see the castle's central pillar, dating back to the 12th century.

  
  
  
• Self-guided tour of the 17th-century dungeons
  September 21 and 22
  

  Discover the real 17th-century dungeons at the Château-Musée, to get a better idea of the prison world at the time.

  
  
  
• Exhibition "Wouaf, un accrochage qui a du chien !
  September 21 and 22
  

  During the Heritage Days, the Château-Musée opens its doors freely to visitors. Visitors will be immersed in 19th-century animal art. This theme, which has been in vogue for several decades, has been revived with the exhibitions dedicated to Rosa Bonheur. Discover fantastic and mythological animals, as well as domestic and wild animals, through works by Albrecht DÜRER, Eugène FROMENTIN, Paul TAVERNIER, Théodore GÉRICAULT, Charles MIGER and many others.

  
  
  
• Visit a reserve at the Château-Musée
  September 21 and 22
  

  The Château-Musée stores over 25,000 works of art. Take a flash tour and discover one of these areas to get a better understanding of what goes on behind the scenes at a museum.