Musée Mathurin Méheut

After 2 years of ambitious renovation work, the Mathurin Méheut Museum reopened its doors in June 2022, revealing a veritable treasure trove of art history in the heart of a surprising architectural creation.
The new museum dedicated to Mathurin Méheut (1882-1958) welcomes visitors to an immersive space in the heart of the Lamballe stud farm. The permanent exhibition, featuring over 200 works, is divided into the major themes dear to Mathurin Méheut.
Gifted with a keen sense of observation and boundless curiosity, Méheut excelled as a painter, illustrator and decorator. An artist from Brittany, his work reflects his many travels in France and abroad. Each year, a temporary exhibition provides an in-depth and original insight into the artist and his period.
The museum is supported by new, highly prestigious acquisitions (bringing the total number of works in the collection to 6,000) and an innovative museography covering 400 m² of exhibition space.
The new museum was awarded the Tourism and Disability label in 2024, providing national and international visitors with an exemplary cultural facility in Brittany.
It will also enable the permanent collections to be conserved in optimum conditions, and to develop an ambitious policy of temporary exhibitions aimed at ensuring equal access to culture for all.
In 2025, the exhibition "Awakening the vanished animals. Science - Art - Fiction" will take you to the heart of representations of extinct animals, of which Mathurin Méheut has left us some exceptional examples.

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