The Museum is named after the family that donated its mansion to Arbois Town Council in 1902. Their gift also included the mansion’s furniture, collections of objects (outstanding porcelain and silverware) and works of art (paintings from the 17th to 19th centuries, including works by the Franche-Comté painters Courbet and Pointelin).
These works reflect the enlightened taste of several generations of a family belonging to the provincial aristocracy and are exhibited in rooms with their original interiors. Pastel portraits of Arbois residents drawn by the adolescent Louis Pasteur are also on display.
Access to the rooms located on the 1st floor is via a very beautiful return staircase decorated with stucco and decorated with a wrought iron banister, a typical Franche-Comté work from the 18th century.
