The Museum of Archery and Valois is installed in a medieval original, both princely palaces, noble and stately town house.

• The archery:

• Used for hunting and war, the arc is present on every continent: its manufacture and use vary according to natural resources and local cultures. In Africa, the arches called "simple", that is to say, manufactured with a single wood species, are very powerful and fearsome as the arrows are poisoned. In Mongolia, however, riders use weapons "composite" of extreme force. In Japan, archery has become a refined martial art called Kyudo.
• The Golden Age of archery in Europe is certainly the Middle Ages. The great yew bow called long bow weapon that inflicts the English archers at Crecy and Agincourt terrible defeats to the French during the Hundred Years War. The body of Archers Franks, in charge of police of cities, is created by Charles the seventh in 1448. Subsequently, in the 16th century, the bow and crossbow lose their military role in favor of firearms as the musket. Nevertheless, the archery is practiced in traditional companies, still active today in Picardy and Ile de France. The museum's collections reflect the richness of their traditions by presenting events such as shooting of the bird blind or provincial Day Bouquet.
• In addition to these practices, the archery is an Olympic sport. The museum's collections evoke the know-how factors bows and technical advances that have benefited archers, both in sports than in the bow hunting, regulated in France since 1995.

• The Sacred Art of Valois:

• This group, composed mostly of statues of wood or stone, often polychrome, dated from the 13th to the 19th century, is remarkable quality and diversity. The strategic position of Valois, between Île-de-France and Picardy great cultural centers, has made a religion crisscrossed by numerous artists. The works of the 16th century, many of which are historical monument, are particularly beautiful because of the reconstructions were so many churches.
• In this gallery of saints, the Virgin stands, as in all the Christian West, a place of choice. The studious girl beside St. Anne, her mother, a woman weeping over the body of his son, to the young mother blossomed, many sculptures which record the growth and development of Marian devotion. Moreover, other figures suggest the popular piety of the inhabitants of Valois. The sacred and holy then belong to everyday life; their festivals punctuate the agricultural life. All trades will choose patron saints for such Eloi Laurent or goldsmiths who, having been martyred on a gridiron, became the protector including chefs and cooks. The report is more intimate still accurate when a saint is invoked for the healing of a particular evil ...
• In the collection of sacred art museum Crépy, St. Sebastian, patron saint of archers for being pierced by arrows, thus occupies a special place.

Facade of the Museum of Archery and Valois