MUSÉES DE LA FORTIFICATION ET JULES BASTIEN-LEPAGE

Discover the citadel of Montmédy through the circuit of the ramparts and a signposted route and its two museums. Duration of the visit: 2 hours. Permanent art exhibitions in the casemates of the citadel. Jules Bastien Lepage Museum: Works purchased over the last ten years and never exhibited have been taken out of storage (mainly drawings). In addition, deposits from the Musée Lorrain in Nancy and the Musée Rodin in Paris complete the collection. The museum consists of three different areas - a general introduction to the artist's life and work - an iconographic cabinet which allows drawings and fragile objects to be exhibited - a room of paintings An interactive terminal reveals the diversity of the painter's creations by presenting his major paintings, most of which are kept abroad. The Museum of Fortification : created in 1988, the Museum of Fortification aims to make known the richness, diversity and interest of the Meuse heritage in the field of military architecture, from its origins to the end of the 18th century : models of defensive works, old weapons, aerial views of fortified sites in the Meuse, etc..