Musée de la Vénerie, Hunting museum in Senlis, France.

The Musée de la Vénerie is a hunting museum in Senlis displaying paintings, tools, and equipment related to traditional French hunting practices spread across four floors. The rooms feature objects and artworks that document hunting methods and their role in daily life.

The municipal museum opened on 24 July 1887 in the chapel of the former Charité hospital on rue de Meaux. In 1934 Charles-Jean Hallo became curator and turned it into a hunting museum; the 1935 reorganisation dispersed most of the historical collections. In 1956 the city bought the Saint-Maurice priory house from the Turquet de la Boisserie family, and the museum opened there in 1958.

The museum displays paintings by Albert Guillaume from the early 1900s depicting a hunting adventure, alongside works by Boldini and Pierre-Denis Martin. These artworks reflect how hunting was portrayed in European artistic traditions.

The museum is located within the Royal Castle Park and features stairs and an elevator to move between its four floors. It is helpful to check the website beforehand to confirm opening hours and any special exhibitions during your visit.

A 19th-century bronze copy of the "Diane au cerf" from the Château d'Anet, after Jean Goujon's original, stands on the path to the museum. Behind the building, near the west gate onto place Saint-Maurice, is a small obelisk moved from the carrefour des Égyptiennes; it was erected in 1779 for the birth of Marie-Thérèse de France, first child of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.