Musée Maurepas

About the museum

Musée Maurepas is the second site of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, after the historic site on Quai Zola. It opened on February 1, 2025, in the Maurepas district in the north-east of the city, which was built between the 1950s and the 1970s. Its opening is part of an urban renewal programme run by the City of Rennes and the French state.

The museum occupies about 400 m² at the foot of a 1960s apartment block that residents call “La Banane”, near the Gros-Chêne metro station. It was designed by the Titan agency for the social housing provider Archipel Habitat. The artist Isabelle Cornaro created the interior fittings (plinths, curtains) and five cast-concrete display-window sculptures that line Boulevard Emmanuel-Mounier.

Admission is completely free. Each year, the museum presents two temporary exhibitions of older and contemporary works from its collections; one of them is developed together with residents of the district. A toy library and a play area for young children, run by the community centre, complete the site.

Highlights

• Free admission for everyone
• Two exhibitions a year drawn from the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes
• One annual exhibition developed with residents of the district
• Five display-window sculptures by Isabelle Cornaro along Boulevard Emmanuel-Mounier

Founded

2025

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Admission is free for everyone.

Accessibility

• Wheelchair accessible
• Elevator
• Accessible restroom: no information
• Accessible parking: no information
• Service dogs welcome: no information
• Tactile models & exhibits: no information
• Sign language tours
• Easy-to-read materials
• Audio description: no information

The museum is accessible to visitors with reduced mobility: two levels connected by a lift, toilets on the first floor and on the second floor, benches in several rooms, and wheelchairs and stick seats available to borrow at reception. Guided tours in French Sign Language are offered at both sites. Portable induction loops, tactile booklets and tactile tours are currently only available at the Quai Zola site. Easy-to-read booklets (“facile à lire et à comprendre”) are available at reception.

Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops

The museum offers activities for children and families and has signed the Môm’Art charter of joyful museums. There is no specific visit kit for the Maurepas site.

Getting there & parking

STAR bike stations: Gros-Chêne, Painlevé and Gayeulles Gast. The museum encourages visitors to come by public transport or by bike and, if coming from outside Rennes, to leave the car at a park-and-ride car park.

Amenities & dining

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

Events & venue rental

The museum hasn’t published any information on this.

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