Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, Art museum in Orléans, France

The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans is an art museum holding over 2,000 paintings, 700 sculptures, and 50,000 prints spanning European art from the 15th century onward. The works are arranged across multiple gallery spaces that showcase the development of different artistic styles.

Founded in 1797 on the initiative of Jean Bardin, director of the city's drawing school, and Aignan-Thomas Desfriches, the museum was first installed in the former episcopal palace, then moved to the chapel of the old college in 1799. Closed in 1804, with the collections placed in the Jardin des plantes, it was refounded on 30 December 1823 by mayor the Count of Rocheplatte and his deputy André Gaspard Parfait de Bizemont, who became its director, and installed in the Hôtel des Créneaux. In 1855 the historical collections were separated to form the Musée Historique et Archéologique de l'Orléanais in the Hôtel Cabu; a Paul Fourché museum was built in 1922, and in 1984 a new building by Christian Langlois was added next to the new town hall.

The museum displays works by Italian, Flemish, and Dutch artists representing different artistic periods and traditions. These collections allow visitors to explore how European painting evolved across regions over centuries.

The museum occupies a building constructed in 1984 by architect Christian Langlois, attached to Orléans' new town hall; the older Hôtel des Créneaux site was left behind. Since autumn 2016 the collections have been redisplayed floor by floor in chronological order, with the 19th-century rooms reopened in November 2021 and three rooms for 1870-1900 opened in August 2024.

The institution holds France's second-largest collection of pastel works, surpassed only by the Louvre in Paris. Most pieces date from the 17th and 18th centuries, revealing the mastery artists achieved with this delicate medium.