Ancien couvent des Franciscaines de Deauville, Cultural center and museum in Deauville, France.

The Ancien couvent des Franciscaines is a cultural centre in Deauville whose cream-rendered facade is banded with red brick, topped by a slate roof with three dormer windows and a stepped gable on the right. Inside, the Grande Galerie links the museum, media library, auditorium and exhibition rooms, with glass walkways and eleven screens giving access to digitised collections.

Adèle Mérigault bought a 25-hectare plot in 1876, where the chapel Notre-Dame de la Pitié was built; the first stone contained a relic of Saint Francis of Assisi. Four Franciscan sisters from Perrou arrived on 29 June 1877 to run the Saint-Joseph orphanage, and new buildings followed in 1878. In 1905 the sisters were ordered to leave under the separation law but were recalled by the municipality; the orphanage became auxiliary hospital No. 16 in 1914. The congregation became autonomous in 1916, and the site was converted into a cultural centre by Alain Moatti's agency, opening in 2021.

The name comes from the Franciscan sisters of Notre-Dame de la Pitié, who ran the Saint-Joseph orphanage here from 1877 until 2012. The site is now organised around five themed worlds: Mémoire de Deauville, Musique-cinéma-spectacle, Cheval, Art de vivre and Jeunesse. In the cloister courtyard hangs a chandelier of 14,250 tubes inspired by the skies painted by André Hambourg.

The complex is entered through the Grande Galerie, which links the museum, media library, auditorium and temporary-exhibition wing; glass walkways and eleven screens along it give access to digitised images and the Deauville heritage collections. The building opened to the public in May 2021 after the planned June 2020 inauguration was postponed by the Covid-19 crisis. The site sits in Deauville, at coordinates 49.35430, 0.06681.

In the cloister courtyard, the Moatti-Rivière agency installed a chandelier made of 14,250 tubes, inspired by the skies painted by André Hambourg. Eleven screens and glass walkways in the Grande Galerie let visitors browse digitised images and Deauville's heritage collections.