Musée des Beaux-Arts de Beaune, Fine arts museum in Beaune, France

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Beaune occupies the Porte Marie de Bourgogne, a stone building with a three-storey central pavilion and two lower wings. Its entrance portal, topped by a triangular pediment inscribed "PORTE MARIE DE BOURGOGNE", is flanked by two pale statues. Inside, the collections span archaeology, medieval sculpture and paintings from the 12th to the 20th century.

The museum grew out of Beaune's municipal library and the historical collecting of curator Jules Pautet, with residents donating objects between 1800 and 1850. In 1871 it moved into the south wing of the town hall, where it stayed until 2001. Curator René André reorganised it in 1946 into fine arts, archaeology and city history sections, uncovering a 19th-century painted ceiling under plaster. It moved to the Porte Marie de Bourgogne in 2001–2002.

The museum's name comes from the Porte Marie de Bourgogne, the gatehouse where it has been housed since 2001-2002. Its collections grew largely through donations from Beaune residents, and Hippolyte Michaud, a painter born in the town, directed the fitting-out of the great fine arts room. A painted 19th-century ceiling was found under plaster during René André's post-war renovation.

The museum occupies the Porte Marie de Bourgogne, with entrances at 6 boulevard Perpreuil and 19 rue Poterne; the two museums installed here since 2001–2002 share the building. Look for the carved stone crest and the triangular pediment inscribed "PORTE MARIE DE BOURGOGNE" above the entrance, flanked by two pale statues.

Among the archaeological finds are Middle Burgundian Neolithic pots from the Molle-Pierre cave at Mavilly-Mandelot and a Gallo-Roman three-headed Hermes from the early 1st century AD. The museum also holds a set of Egyptian ushabtis and bronze deities.