Musée Mandet

Established in 1866, labeled Museum of France in 2002, the museum Mandet, named Francisque Mandet, president of the Museum Society is housed in two former mansions connected by a gallery used for temporary exhibitions. The first, the Dufraisse hotel was built in 1707 in the example of Parisian architecture and present collections of paintings and sculpture from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. In 2011, a new department dedicated to design and contemporary decorative arts took place in the ground floor of the east wing of the building. On the occasion of this arrangement, the court and the museum entrance porch regained their original forms of the eighteenth century, highlighted by the contemporary work of the artist Helene Mugot: "No-wise." The second hotel dates from the fifteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Restored in 1983, it houses a rich collection of art and decorative art from antiquity to the eighteenth century, offered by Mary and Joseph Edouard Richard, Riomois generous donors.