Right in the heart of Auxerre town centre, this former 18th-century town house was bequeathed to the town in 1926 by Léon-Paul Le Blanc-Duvernoy to perpetuate the memory of his family and his passion for the arts.
Today, the music room has preserved its precious decor of 18th-century tapestries from the Beauvais manufacture, illustrating several episodes in the life of the Kangxi Emperor (listed as a ‘Monument Historique’ in 1951).
The museum’s other rooms, devoted to ceramics, feature major collections of revolutionary earthenware, patronymic earthenware (donated by Pagès-Guenot), Auxerrois earthenware and Puisaye stoneware, making it a leading centre for the study of ceramics in France.
Paintings (from a variety of periods and origins, often by prestigious names such as La Fosse, Ribera and Van de Venne), furniture and objets d’art complete the collections of this charming museum.