Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes

In the early nineteenth century the museum was an ancient building called the Maison Carree, there was ancient and more recent paintings works. In the early twentieth it became too small, a new museum was then built a few hundred meters between Nimes Arena and the railway station. This new and beautiful building became the current Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes.
You'll find 3600 loan works. Some are from Italian artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and are in the lower gallery of the museum. Those exposed in the upper gallery from Flemish, Dutch and French painters from the same period and even more contemporary.
Visit the permanent collection is free and conferences that are scheduled. Some other events are regularly offered.
The stop nearest bus is the "Square of November 11." Climb up Briçonnet Street and take the second street on the right, Rue Bourdaloue. The museum is located at 50m.