Palais des Beaux Arts

A palatial building both in size and splendour, houses a noteworthy collection of art mostly from France and Flanders. The 1st floor collection of paintings needs an update curation-wise but it is rich of art treasures. Give your sea good 3 hours and more if you want to thoroughly enjoy this museum. A spacious cafe and bookshop are a nice chance for a pit stop.

Some very beautiful art here but unfortunately, there are no English captions for nearly any. Weirdly, placards for each section have English translation just not the art itself. The direction of the museum is only quite confusing. But I want on a free European culture day so very happy! Otherwise I think it’s 7€.

Fantastic art gallery with tons of exhibits. The ground floor is completely free to visit, but you need to pay 7 Euros to visit the exhibits on the floors both above and below. Compared to what some museums in the UK charge, that is a bargain.

Huge collection in a beautiful building. The ground floor is free to access and to access the other floors costs €7. It was a bit busier than I'd expect from a Monday, but still super comfortable to visit. In geral it's very accessible for non french speakers. And inside is pretty accessible for people with mobility issues, but I didn't pay attention if there is any ramp to access the building.

Absolutely beautiful experience. Nice layout and a wonderful natural lighting. We were lucky to have barely any visitors apart from us so it was not at all crowded.

Established in 1809, this large fine arts museum with over 75000 pieces include works by Donatello, Tissot, Goya, El Greco, Raphael, Rubens, Courbet, Rodin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and many others including "The Birth of Venus", by Amaury Duval. Excellent museum I would recommend visiting.

The Lille Art Museum is a wonderful place to visit! The architecture of the building is stunning, and the surrounding environment is beautiful and well-maintained. The security is excellent, which is especially reassuring during the Olympic period. It felt very relaxing and enjoyable to spend time here. Highly recommend visiting if you’re in the area!

Can't rate this museum enough - would recommend everyone to visit. Spacious exhibition rooms with excellent collection. The special exhibition when we visited was for Impressionists. Some fantastic works from Monet were exhibited. The ground floor has an experiental area where a painting is paired with music, darkness and meditation. Thoughtful curating work!

I'm going to be very upfront in the beginning of this review, when I arrived at Palais des Beaux Arts I was pretty burnt out with museums at this point, it was extremely cold, raining, and we were waiting in a line outside for like twenty minutes so the start to this experience was pretty miserable. Once we got into the building and through the security checkpoint, you could tell right away that this place was pretty beautiful. The building itself is 3 stories and each floor has something a little bit different to offer you. We headed down first and spent some time looking at the statues which were absolutely incredible, followed by the second floor which was a mixture of different pieces of art and a dome style room you could sit on beanbags and watch something. The main event of the show was upstairs where I couldn't even estimate the insane amount of paintings that fill the walls of the different colored rooms. The rooms themselves are all tall and covered from floor to ceiling with such incredible pieces, and everything you think you are done suddenly the red painted rooms turn into white rooms or green rooms and it just keeps going, it was truly remarkable. Overall, the Palais des Beaux Arts was a fantastic place to spend an hour or so learning about French art. Did I leave some stuff out? Yeah, because this was like my 23rd museum and at some point they start blending together. I loved how diverse the art here was and really did enjoy walking around, I highly recommend checking this place out if you are in Lille.

Le Palais des Beaux Arts is a must stop for Arts aficionados. Thankfully Lille is a mini Paris and Lille is known for its art places, the architecture of the building is breath taking. totally recommend

Inside and out the Palais des Beaux Arts is quite a spectacle. The big old building from the outside is architecturally brilliant. On the inside is a wonderful collection of fine arts. It's approx £7 to get in, and you can spend hours wandering the different artworks held within the walls. Well worth a look.

Now, I must say that this type of art museum may not be suitable for everyone, but I personally found this very interesting - one of the largest museums in France (and as I was told, perhaps the largest outside Paris). There is a very good range of art on show here, from your Renaissance oil paintings to a mix of 17th, 18th and 19th century items, right up to the Picasso pieces and early 1900s sculptures. What is more, I found the plain relief models in the basement of this museum to be greatly interesting - numerous French, Belgian and Dutch cities are mapped out on a series of tables - in decent detail too! A couple of hours could easily be spent in this museum.