Musée d'Angoulême, Fine arts museum near Cathedral St Pierre, Angoulême, France.

The Musée d'Angoulême occupies the former bishop's residence beside Saint-Pierre Cathedral, entered from square Girard II. Its three levels are linked by a staircase whose glazed bays frame the cathedral at different heights. The ground floor holds archaeology and palaeontology, the first floor African and Oceanian art, and the second floor painting, sculpture and arms.

The museum opened on 12 September 1920 in the former bishop's residence beside Saint-Pierre Cathedral. Its history began in 1838 with François Rainguet's gift of ten paintings to the city; in 1868 the French government sent paintings shown at the Paris Salon, and on 15 August 1869 the museum opened on the ground floor of the new town hall, where it stayed until 1920. It moved to the former bishopric in 1920, was modernised in 1979–1983 and again in 2002–2008 by architects Stéphane Barbotin-Larrieux and Paul Gresham, and entry became paid in 2016.

The museum keeps the chapel of the former bishop's palace, a small oratory with a ribbed vault and vivid stained glass dated 1833 and 1834, showing Saint Ausonius, Mary and the Child, and Saint Hilary, with a Tours mark and a monogram possibly of the glassmaker Julien-Léopold Lobin. The African and Oceanian pieces, mostly given by Dr Jules Lhomme in 1934, are being inventoried since 2023 under the Anada project on their provenance.

The main entrance is now on the square Girard II side, named after the bishop who began the cathedral. Collections occupy three levels linked by a staircase whose glazed bays look onto the cathedral at different heights. Entry to the collections has been charged since 2016.

The museum holds some 5,000 African pieces, most acquired in ports and colonial fairs or through military campaigns, slaving and religious missions. Since 2023 the Anada project has traced the provenance of sub-Saharan objects across six museums in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, using the inventory drawn up by Dr Jules Lhomme, who gave thousands of objects in 1934.