Musée Jean-Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine — Attraction in Angers

Very nice museum and interesting tapestry but I really loved the beautiful medieval cloister accessed through the back of the church where the 'Chant du Monde' tapestry is housed. You need to keep your ticket to enter both things, so don't lose it in between. They'll make you check even a small backpack into the locker. Slightly annoyingly I was allowed through and then they changed their mind and made me walk all the way back through the museum to put my bag away), so it's probably easier to check it yourself - under the stairs as you...

A museum with a clear focus on tapestry. There is a permanent collection, a temporary exhibition space, and the old church with the Lurçat apocalypse series.

We enjoyed the chance to handle a few small samples which showed the front and back of a tapestry to see how the weaving was done.

Well worth a visit. Do buy a 'billet jumelé' which gives a single entrance into each...

Interesting! I didn't know the modern art of tapestry: the colors of the art works are absolutely vibrant and to think about all the work that went into making them is almost overwhelming. The building itself is a pleasure to the eye with the surrounding garden, shame that the chapel and the cloister are temporarily closed. Spent there about 1...