Museum of Art and Archaeology of the Pays de Laon

The Musée du Pays de Laon takes visitors on a journey through time and space, from prehistory to the 19th century. The Mediterranean archaeology rooms (Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Etruscan and Roman civilisations) have been given a new thematic presentation. Eighteenth-century furniture and earthenware, paintings from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, including ‘The Annunciation’, an altarpiece panel, circa 1410, and ‘The Concert’ by Mathieu Le Nain. Regional archaeology is also well represented, with artefacts from the Gallo-Roman and medieval periods. The building stands on an ancient site that once belonged to the Templar Order of Laon, and the chapel of the former commandery can still be seen in the adjoining garden...