Matisse museum, Art museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France.
The Matisse Museum occupies the Palais Fénelon, displaying more than 170 works by Henri Matisse across seventeen exhibition rooms covering 4,600 square meters.
The museum, established by Henri Matisse himself on November 8, 1952, moved from the Le Cateau City Hall to Palais Fénelon in 1982 following significant collection expansion.
The collection includes works by Auguste Herbin, Geneviève Claisse, elements from the Tériade collection, and thirty photographs from Henri Cartier-Bresson collection.
The museum operates from 10 AM to 12:30 PM and 2 PM to 6 PM on weekdays, offering guided tours in English, German, and Dutch with prior reservations.
The Palais Fénelon building transformed from a bishop refuge to a cotton mill, then a school, before becoming the third-largest collection of Matisse works in France.
Location: Le Cateau-Cambrésis
Inception: 1952
Official opening: 1952
Capacity: 562
Phone: +33327846450
Website: https://museematisse.fr
GPS coordinates: 50.10644,3.54088
Latest update: June 23, 2025 09:44
The Hauts-de-France region stretches from the English Channel coast to the World War I battlefields, containing medieval castles, nature reserves, and historic gardens. Château de Pierrefonds displays 19th-century French military architecture, while the 13th-century Château d'Olhain sits on artificial islands. Abbaye de Vaucelles preserves Cistercian architecture, and the Collégiale Saint-Pierre de Doullens demonstrates Gothic construction. The Familistère de Guise documents 19th-century industrial social architecture. The natural landscape includes Parc du Marquenterre, a bird sanctuary on the Somme Bay, and Les Hortillonnages Amiénois, floating gardens near Amiens. Jardins de Valloires and Jardins de Sericourt showcase French garden design across different periods. Cap Blanc-Nez provides cliffs overlooking the English Channel. Military sites such as Blockhaus d'Éperlecques, Forteresse de Mimoyecques, and Batterie de Zuydcoote recall World War II operations. The Nécropole Nationale de Notre-Dame de Lorette and Tour d'Ulster at Thiepval document World War I. Musée Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis displays works by the artist in his birthplace.
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