Matisse Museum — Local services in Cambrai

The Staff is very pleasant and friendly and the museum is beautiful you can see Matisse, Chagall, Herbin and Picasso in one place, so this complain is directed to the administration of the museum. How come you do not have any floor plans or brochure in English, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, etc? Do you only want French visitors, is that it? Although you also do not have a floor plan in French... You do not even have audio guides or a phone App. Nothing, absolutely nothing. The Museum store is really bad. It is the first time in my life that I visit a museum gift shop and buy nothing, because there was almost nothing interesting to buy about Matisse or Chagall and I found nothing about Auguste Herbin. A few books for children to colour and lots of expensive bags of really bad quality. You call that a shop? There are a few signs in English and French but not in all the galeries....As I said, I liked the museum and the work displayed in it, but I speak French, so it was easy for me to read and understand what was on display. If you do not speak a word of French I do not think you will enjoy this...

For traveling over 100 miles away from Paris, as a Matisse lover and an artist, this was not quite make it for me. The place runs as a contemporary art museum with the modest collection of the artist. The living artists exhibition was well curated, but one would not travel that far to see it. If Matisse is a draw, then the important works should not be on the loan, or it needs to be announced on the English website. The English audio guide was professionally produced but only covers a small part of the work. At least the label on the wall should have some English translations. I would feel better to spend 4 hours traveling and the cost of the train tickets to see Musée Matisse with a faint...

A nice museum with a good Matisse collection and works by Chagal and Herbin. If you are not French [speaking] it's a trial, very little information in other languages. The security people are 'on your back' a lot, because the museum closes for lunch [!] they practically push you out the door. Not only is the museum centered around Matisse, the whole town is. Getting a seat at a resaurant during that forced lunch break is a problem if you do not reserve in advance. Keep all this in mind: get to the town early, try and reserve restaurant seats so that when you get thrown out at lunch time there is somwhere to go, we had to leave town to get somthing...