• History:

• The collections of the Museum of Art and Archeology were gradually established from the second half of the 19th century. They have a double origin.
• Founded in 1862, the archeology committee of Senlis brings together a rather heteroclite collection that is dominated by archeology. It is composed of the donations made by its members and is installed in the Hotel du Haubergier in 1927. In addition, a municipal museum was born in 1876 from the legacy granted by Mrs. Menessier, completed by shipments of the State, for most paintings of Salon. First installed in the hall of honor of the City Hall, the municipal museum joined in 1887 the chapel of the old hospital of the convent of Charity.
• In 1952, the donation to the city of Senlis of the collections of the archaeological committee, renamed the Society of History and Archeology since 1920, led to the constitution of a single museum, property of the City.
• Cramped in the hotel du Haubergier, it is transferred to the former episcopal palace. This new establishment is inaugurated in 1989.

• The course :

• In the basement, the visitor discovers, leaning against the foundations of the wall, the remains of a Gallo-Roman house on which was built the palace. At the same level, a beautiful vaulted cellar houses the spectacular set of Gallo-Roman ex-voto exhumed during the excavations of the healing temple of the forest of Halatte.
• The archaeological collections unfold on the ground floor, around a monumental bronze pedestal found in the grounds of the Royal Castle where there were important public monuments in Roman times.
• The vaulted 14th century vaulted room contains rare sculptures (head of a bearded man called Head of Senlis) and liturgical objects from the Middle Ages (Chancellor Guérin's Lacrosse).
• On the floor are presented the paintings of the seventeenth to the twentieth century (Champaigne, Vignon, Corot, Boudin), with two important poles, dedicated to the master of Manet, Thomas Couture and the Primitives Modernes, appellation created by Wilhelm Uhde, to denominate self-taught painters such as Bombois, Bauchant and Seraphine Louis, known as the Seraphine of Senlis, of which the museum keeps a large fund.