HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF ORLÉANAIS
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A beautiful Renaissance building, housing the Gallo-Roman bronze treasure, with objects of Gallic art.
This beautiful Renaissance building is attributed to the architect Jacques Androuet du Cerceau. It was built in 1548 for Philippe Cabu, a lawyer at the Châtelet. Discreet, little known to the people of Orléans, it nevertheless houses the Gallo-Roman bronze treasure found in the bed of the Loire River, in Neuvy-en-Sullias. It is a group of Gallic and Gallo-Roman sculptures that is very well known to specialists, but much less so from a local point of view. The objects, of all beauty, reveal an extremely modern style of Gallic art. The rest of the collection relates to the decorative arts and the archaeology of the town: medieval history, Renaissance sculpture, crafts and manufactures, ceramics. One room is dedicated to the port of Orléans, another to Joan of Arc who is currently being redeployed, and finally one to the architectural heritage of Orléans through the 19th century watercolours of Charles Pensée.
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