Musée des Augustins — Attraction in Toulouse

A fine museum. Although, unfortunately the paintings gallery is undergoing renovations currently, there is still plenty to see. The buildings and the cloisters and garden are themselves magnificent and house some great sculptures and many of Toulouse's artefacts from many of the other old and former religious buildings of the city. The serried ranks of gargoyles that line one side of the cloisters are marvellous as are the medieval sculpture and carvings. Within the church lies the reliquary of St Augustine along with some fine religious painting by such luminaries as Van Dyck and Rubens to name just two. I look forward to returning to see the painting gallery following its renovation...

One of the places my son and I have enjoyed very much. He even took a power nap there and I take the opportunity to tank one more time to the very kind lady at the entrance of the light room, for letting him sleep on her chair. This is an old convent transformed in a museum with a beautiful patio garden with heavenly smelling roses and other beautiful plants that give these place a short of calmness and tranquility that you could only find in a church environment. On the other hand all the sculptures and artworks around compliment the settlement very well and the way the artwork is exposed, displayed is just fab....

Six years of renovation? What kind of incompetence deprives a city of its only fine arts museum for this duration. And for what, “To give it an entrance appropriate for the prestige of the building”. Only a delusional bureaucratic idealist could think shutting down a city’s main museum for six years would be justified by such a superfluous endeavour. You’ve essentially deprived two generations of Toulouse Lycée students from the opportunity of experiencing the fine arts. Shameful incompetence, everyone involved should be replaced. Musée des Augustins is merely a concept, a remnant of history, it doesn’t...