Musée du Berry, Regional history museum in Bourges, France

The Musée du Berry is housed in the Hôtel Cujas building and contains regional objects, sculptures, and archaeological finds from different time periods. The collection includes Roman steles, medieval works, and items that document life in this region.

The collection was founded in 1834 and later moved in 1891 to its current location at the Hôtel Cujas building. This relocation allowed for a better presentation of regional history and made the museum an important place for preserving Berry's cultural heritage.

The museum displays works and objects from the former province of Berry that show how people lived and shaped their surroundings here. You can see regional pottery and paintings that reflect the craftsmanship and tastes of different times.

The museum has been closed since June 2021 for safety and compliance reasons, so check its reopening before planning a visit. The building is the Hôtel Cujas in central Bourges, where the entrance is set in a large stone archway beneath a red "Musée du Berry" banner.

The Egyptian room holds the mummy of Djehdor, dated to the 4th century BCE, shown among funerary objects. The sources record no provenance for it, so nothing ties it to a traveller from Bourges. The same ground-floor galleries display 220 Gallo-Roman stelae and decorations from ancient Bourges.