Visit the Fabre Museum in Montpellier: tickets, prices, schedules

Did you plan a stay in Montpellier? So don't miss visiting the Fabre Museum, beautiful and renowned Fine Arts Museum of the city!

The vibrant and sparkling city of Montpellier promises you beautiful moments during your holidays, with family, in love or with friends! Discover its historic city centre and its small medieval streets, filled with small shops of all kinds and restaurants with local flavours. You will not miss its famous Place de la Comédie, and its beautiful fountain of the Three Graces, located just in front of the Opera. Discover its beautiful parks and gardens, its lively and trendy neighborhoods, its historic buildings and the many activities the city offers in the summer. Its surroundings are not the rest, with the seaside less than 15 minutes, the famous Pic Saint Loup and its recognized winery, small picturesque surrounding villages, rivers and other lakes that surround it.

But first of all, before you explore the surroundings, head to the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, not to miss under any pretext! This art museum, full of more fabulous works than others: paintings, sculptures, engravings, drawings, temporary exhibitions... Art lovers or simple curious, you will be charmed!

Here’s everything you need to know to visit the Fabre Museum in Montpellier.

History of the Fabre Museum

The Musée Fabre in Montpellier is the city’s main art museum, located in the historic centre, right in front of the Esplanade and right next to the Place de la Comédie .

In 1824, Baron François Xavier, a great artist of painting and collector, offered to donate his collections to the city. It is here that the idea of creating a museum takes shape. The museum opened its doors on 3 December 1828.

Located in the Massilian hotel, a beautiful 18th-century hotel, it took 3 years of work, including to extend the building, incorporating the former Jesuit College dating from the 17th century. All, supervised by the mayor of the city, Baron Fabre, and two great architects of the time, Fovis and Boué.

In 2003, the museum closed its doors for 4 years, for major expansion work. The exhibition spaces range from 3000 to 9000 m2 with: a new temporary exhibition room, a wing dedicated to contemporary painting, the relocation of the library, or the reorganization of the tour circuit.

His public reopening took place on 4 February 2007.

What to see and do at the Fabre Museum in Montpellier?

In order to organize and prepare you to visit the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, we recommend you visit the official website. This will allow you to plan your visit as best as possible and identify all things you want to see. In fact, the Musée Fabre in Montpellier provides online tools to help you prepare your visit: a tour to choose from, a list of rooms and audioguides that can be downloaded free of charge in the "Resources" section.

Visiting the Fabre Museum in Montpellier is visiting one of the most important museums in the province and the main art museum in Montpellier. You will discover it 9 200 m2 gallery a permanent collection consisting of 800 works dating from the Renaissance to the present day, and from temporary exhibitions .

To explore the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, you will have the choice, different ways to offer yourself:

• A visit room after room great routes
• Courses thematic
• A course measured by selecting the works of your choice
• The 1st Sunday of each month at 2 p.m., "What's New at the Museum" is a free guided tour presenting the new hangings of permanent collections

Not to be missed if you are going to visit the Fabre Museum in Montpellier:

• Flemish and Dutch paintings of the 17th century
• The paintings and sculptures of the 15th century in the middle of the 18th century
• Neoclassical paintings and sculptures
• The works of Romanticism and Classicism
• The part on Modernity, from 1850 to 1914 and post-war, between figuration and abstraction
• The ensemble of works by Pierre Soulages
• The contemporary works of David, Ingres, Delacroix, Géricault, Courbet
• Decorative Arts Department
• Hotel de Cabrières-Sabatier d’Espeyran
• The work of the founder of the museum, François-Xavier Fabre
• The « Impressionism» part with the works of Bazille, Staël, Van Dongen and Richier
• The interior wall, made entirely of textured glasses, which illuminates at night thanks to more than 3,000 neon devices

How to go to the Fabre Museum in Montpellier?

There are several ways to get to the Fabre Museum, located 39 boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, 34000 Montpellier.

By tram

• Comedy stop on lines 1 and 2
• Corum stop on lines 1, 2 and 4

By car

• Autoroute A9, follow the direction Montpellier (A709), and take Exit 29 (Montpellier Est), follow the historic center.
• Parking Corum/Comédie or Polygone.

By train

• Saint Roch Station is a 10-minute walk from Fabre Museum.

Schedules and Rates of the Fabre Museum in Montpellier

HORARI

• Fabre Museum : every day from 10am to 6pm, except Monday.
• Decorative Arts Department / Hotel de Cabrières-Sabatier d’Espeyran : Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday, from 2pm to 5pm.
• Documentation Centre Wednesday and Thursday, from 2pm to 6pm.

Exceptional closures (Museum Fabre, Decorative Arts Department, Hotel Sabatier d’Espeyran): January 1, May 1, November 1, December 24 and 25.

Note : The ticket office closes 30 minutes before the site is closed, and the evacuation of the exhibition rooms is 10 minutes before the closure.

RATES

Permanent Collection

• Rate: 7€
• Reduced price (less than 18 years – students) : 5€
• Audioguide : 3€

Temporary Winter Exhibition

• Rate: 8€
• Reduced price: 6€
• Audioguide : 3€

Temporary summer exhibition

• Rate: 10€
• Reduced price: 8€
• Audioguide : 3€

Free : on the 1st Sunday of the month, the entry ticket to the permanent collections is free of charge.

Additional information

• The purchase of a “Permanent Collection” ticket gives you free access to the Hotel de Cabrières-Sabatier d’Espeyran.
• The purchase of a “Temporary Exhibition” ticket gives you free access to the permanent collections of the Fabre Museum and the Hotel de Cabrières-Sabatier d’Espeyran, once per section and usable until the end of the temporary exhibition shown on the ticket.
• You can buy your ticket in advance directly on the Fabre Museum website. Your e-billet will then be printed or downloaded in advance and show at the entrance of the museum.