Ancien Collège des Jésuites de Reims, Historical museum and educational complex in Reims, France

The Ancien Collège des Jésuites is a building complex in Reims with a French Baroque library decorated with garlands, scrolls, and cherubs alongside a refectory featuring wooden wall panels. Today it houses Sciences Po university and the Regional Contemporary Art Fund, with the architecture accommodating both historical and modern uses.

The Jesuit college was founded in 1608 by the Society of Jesus and served as an educational center for the region for over a century. After the expulsion of Jesuits from France in 1762, the building underwent several transformations and eventually evolved into its current role housing university and cultural institutions.

The refectory displays paintings by Jean Hélart showing the lives of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier, the founders of the Jesuit order. These artworks tell the story of the religious figures whose teachings shaped the community that once filled these rooms.

The complex is entered from Place Museux, with wings running along rue Gambetta and rue du Barbâtre. The FRAC Champagne-Ardenne occupies the Gambetta wing and the maison des associations the Barbâtre wing. The 17th-century staircase is separately classified, and the whole complex has been a monument historique since 2 September 1933.

The vines in the garden survived the phylloxera outbreak and belong to an old grape variety, Verjus; they are protected along with the garden, courtyard and interior decoration. The 17th-century staircase has been separately classified as a historic monument since 25 December 1921, while the whole complex was classified on 2 September 1933.