Musée d'Art et d'Histoire

The museum's collections of art and history show traces of the past of the city of Saint Denis, tangible remnants of archeology reveal the lives of people of the Middle Ages of this illustrious city of Ile de France which is home the tomb of the kings of France. Objects gathered around the city of Caramel evoke religious life of these women turned to God. Those of the apothecary, the memory of the former Hotel Dieu Hospital Charity under the age of Louis XV and Louis XVI. In the mid-nineteenth century, industries modulate the landscape, Saint Denis is a working town. Funds echo of political thought inherited from the struggles of the nineteenth century days of 1848, Paris Commune, and in the nineteenth century humanistic currents. The art is to serve the story through the prestigious private donations that are: George Besson, Louis Provost, Lionel Jacob, Eugene and August Delâtre, Jean Effel, Paul Eluard and Jacques Rech.