Created in the second half of the 19th century, the municipal museum of Toul, or Michel-Hachet Museum of Art and History, originally took place in the former episcopal palace. Installed in the former Maison-Dieu of the 10th century since the 1980s, it offers visitors very fine collections, in particular in the former chapel of the Sick, a very beautiful Gothic building from the 13th century.
Dedicated to archaeology, history, and ethnology, as well as decorative arts, fine arts and graphic arts, the municipal museum of Toul notably presents mammoth tusks, a steneosaurus fossil, objects from Egypt, Babylon and Syria, a Merovingian tomb or even very beautiful tapestries from the Northern Provinces.
Passing visitors will also appreciate the religious art room with its Russian icons or statues, the military history rooms or the many works of art visible on site attributed to François Boucher, Casimir de Balthasar, Alfred Renaudin or Henri Auguste Calot.
Finally, the museum offers popular arts and traditions rooms with collections dedicated to the medicine of yesteryear, pottery and earthenware. Thematic temporary exhibitions are also regularly offered.
