Musée de l’Avallonnais Jean Després

The museum's collections are rich and diversified: archaeology, painting, sculpture, 19th and 20th century silverware, etc.
The annual temporary exhibitions are an opportunity to highlight the museum's collections by illustrating a given theme; the theme, in 2020, confronts the vision of the Avallonnais landscapes by artists with the photographic reality of these same landscapes today.
Among its collections, the museum presents exceptional works by Georges Rouault, the "Stella" and the engravings of the "Miserere" inspired by the 14-18 War. A room is dedicated to Jean Després, an Avallonean by adoption and an internationally renowned art-deco goldsmith of the 1920s and 1930s.
The museum also offers the opportunity to discover the cultural and religious traditions of the Yao minority, which is now spread from southern China to northern Thailand.