Cité du Vitrail, Glass art documentation center in Troyes, France

The Cité du Vitrail occupies the 18th-century Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte in Troyes, with a 300 m² permanent exhibition in the former chapel. It displays stained glass from the 12th to the 21st century, including the 13th-century Cimabue panel and works by the Linard Gontier workshop. A documentation centre and library on the site are open to researchers.

The Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte was founded in the 12th century as a hospital; its surviving buildings, including the vaulted great hall and the apothecary, date largely from the 18th century. The Cité du Vitrail opened there in 2023, after the département de l'Aube restored the former hospital to house its stained-glass collection. The site also keeps a documentation centre on glassmaking techniques and the region's windows.

The Cité du Vitrail occupies the 18th-century Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte, whose former hospital ward now holds the permanent display of stained glass from the 12th to the 21st century. The name refers to the Aube's glassmaking tradition, and the centre also runs a documentation collection on the craft. Look for the 12th-century panels from the former abbey of Clairvaux, among the oldest pieces shown.

The Cité du Vitrail occupies the Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte on the corner of the rue de la Cité and the quai des Comtes de Champagne, a short walk from Troyes cathedral and the old town centre. The main exhibition rooms are on the upper floor, reached by stairs and a lift; the ground-floor apothecary and chapel are visited separately. Allow about an hour and a half for the permanent route and temporary displays.

The Cité du Vitrail opened in 2023 in the Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte, a former hospital whose 18th-century apothecary and vaulted refectory visitors can still see. Its study centre documents the roughly 200 churches of the Aube holding stained glass, and the museum's own windows come from that same regional stock, so the displays and the churches outside are one collection.