Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle, Art museum in La Rochelle, France.

The Musée des Beaux-Arts occupies a neoclassical episcopal palace rebuilt from 1769 to 1774 by architect Gilles Nassivet and contractor François Chapuy. Its right wing shows a light gray ashlar facade with three tall white-framed windows above a stone balustrade balcony on carved corbels, and a French flag projects from the left wing.

Paul Legoux, treasurer of the House of Navarre, bought the house in 1600 on the site of the Grand-Logis, which had hosted Sully in 1604, Condé in 1615, Louis XIII in 1628 and Anne of Austria in 1632. It became a seminary in 1673 and the bishopric in 1696. From 1769 to 1774 Bishop Crussol d'Uzès had it rebuilt to plans by Gilles Nassivet, giving it its neoclassical form.

The building's name recalls the Grand-Logis, or Palais-Royal, that stood here and lodged Sully in 1604, Condé in 1615, Louis XIII in 1628 and Anne of Austria in 1632. It became a seminary in 1673, and Bishop Henri de Laval installed the bishopric in 1696. The municipal library occupied it from 1795 until 1998, when it moved to the Michel-Crépeau media library.

The museum has been closed for renovation since 2018, with reopening planned for 2027. The building also houses the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles of Poitou-Charentes and a lapidary museum of fragments from the Carmelite church, the town hall and the Protestant college. The municipal library left in 1998 for the Michel-Crépeau media library, freeing space for a contemporary art room opened in 1999.

The museum holds rare Chinese export paintings made in Canton before 1844 by the artist Youqua, a lesser-known piece of the collection that few visitors expect to find. These works reveal how trade routes between Asia and Europe shaped what ended up in French coastal cities.