Musée d'art et d'archéologie de Senlis, Art and archaeology museum in Senlis, France

The Musée d'art et d'archéologie de Senlis occupies a former episcopal palace and displays artworks alongside archaeological objects spanning multiple periods. The building itself is a historical monument with exhibition spaces that were fully renovated and reorganized to improve how visitors move through and experience the collections.

The Archaeological Committee, founded in 1862, gathered finds from the arenas of Senlis and the Gallo-Roman temple in the Halatte forest, then rented the chapel of chancellor Guérin on the first floor of the episcopal palace, where the museum first opened on 10 June 1867. Closed for full restoration from July 2007, it reopened on 23 June 2012 after archaeological discoveries and procurement delays pushed back the works.

The museum's name comes from the Comité archéologique, a learned society founded in 1862 that gathered finds from the arenas of Senlis and the Gallo-Roman temple in the Halatte forest. Its collections were long shown in the chapel of chancellor Guérin on the first floor, and the society still ran the museum in 1927.

The museum sits in the former episcopal palace beside Senlis cathedral, in the historic centre. The building is a monument historique listed since 1964. The entrance courtyard is gravelled, with geometric lawn beds edged by low hedges and small conical shrubs; the L-shaped stone wings with their tall windows surround it. Allow time for the different floors of the palace.

The museum opened in 1867 in the former episcopal palace, where the Archaeological Committee rented the first-floor chapel of Chancellor Guérin. Early visits were allowed only when a committee member was present, because unsupervised objects had disappeared. By the 1920s the collections filled almost the entire first floor.