Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille

The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille was built by the architects Édouard Bérard and Fernand Delmas, between 1885 and 1892. It was inaugurated on 6 March 1892. The building, Belle Époque in inspiration with references to the Italian Renaissance, underwent a major renovation between 1991 and 1997, led by Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart, and reopened in June 1997.

With about 22,000 m², of which 12,000 m² are devoted to exhibitions, it is one of the largest museums in France, and the leading provincial museum by attendance. Its collections include works by Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya, David and Delacroix, as well as Donatello's Feast of Herod. The museum also holds fifteen plan-reliefs of towns fortified by Vauban, transferred from Paris in the 1980s, as well as ceramics, sculptures and drawings.

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