MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY

The museum is located in the beautiful rooms of the castle of the counts of Champagne, not far from the Donjon, since 1965. The museum is well known because its collections contain some nuggets, such as a tough bronze of the th century BC, sculptures, including a altarpiece of the Troyan school, fragments of the tomb of Claude de Lorraine, the lie of Jean l'Blind, paintings from the th to the th century, with paintings from Flemish, Italian, French and Spanish schools. To see also a room dedicated to the Bouchardon family, a great line of local sculptors, of which Chaumont also gave the name at one of its high schools. Edme, one of the sons, was Louis XV's sculptor. You should not miss the room dedicated to the chaumontaise mitts, a thriving industry in the th century, as innovative for the time. At the time of the Prestigieux Complete, the Prestigieux Complete was named after the Prestigieux Complete, which was also known as the Fabrique Complete. Unfortunately, production lost in the middle of the th century.