Near the Plantagenet City, collections of Italian paintings, Flemish, Dutch and French from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century furniture, sculptures, objets d'art. Egyptian Gallery.
The Musée de Tesse, Le Mans, occupies the site of the former estate of the family of Tesse, whose collections form part of the old fund. Permanent exhibitions spread over two levels, displaying paintings, sculptures and objets d'art from the twelfth to the nineteenth century and the twentieth century. The building blocks are "Sleep Elijah" and "Vanity" by Philippe de Champaigne, "The Nature morte aux armor" of Willem van Aelst, secretary of Louis XV and very original paintings illustrating the "Roman comique" of Scarron. In 2001 was inaugurated a vast underground space devoted to Pharaonic Egypt. Y are presented size imitations of the tombs of Queen Nefertari, wife of Ramses II and Sennefer, mayor of Thebes.
