Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Denis, Art museum in Saint-Denis, France.

The Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Saint-Denis occupies a former Carmelite convent building that houses diverse art collections and historical objects spanning different periods. The structure contains multiple exhibition spaces where visitors can explore artworks and archaeological discoveries throughout the museum.

Seven nuns from the Amiens Carmel founded this convent in September 1625, the 37th house of the Discalced Carmelites in France. Louise of France, daughter of Louis XV, took the habit in 1770, made her vows in 1771 and was prioress from 1773 to 1779 and again from 1785 until her death in 1787. She had the dilapidated buildings restored and commissioned a neo-classical chapel from the king's architect Richard Mique. The municipality bought the site from the bishopric in 1972, saving it from property developers, and the museum moved in in 1981.

The Carmelite cells display objects and paintings on convent life, including works by painter Laurent Guillot. The collections hold more than 3,000 lithographs and 800 wood engravings by Honoré Daumier. The Paul Éluard fund, named for the poet born in Saint-Denis, keeps the manuscript of his poem Liberté, a vase by Pablo Picasso and a poem illustrated by Joan Miró.

The museum sits between rue Gabriel-Péri and rue de la Légion d'honneur, with the rue des Carmélites running along its south side. The recommended approach is the underground Saint-Denis Porte de Paris station on Metro line 13, about 100 metres south of the entrance. The chapel, now a classified monument, is the room to head for first.

The chapel's pediment reads "JYSTICE DE PAX", a trace of its use as a public magistrate's court from about 1895 until 1983. The convent was the 37th Carmelite foundation in France, established in September 1625 by seven nuns from Amiens.