The musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Châlons-en-Champagne is a French art and archaeology museum on place Godart in

Châlons-en-Champagne Châlons-en-Champagne () is a city in the Grand Est region of France. It is the capital of the Departments of France, department of Marne (department), Marne, despite being only a quarter the size of the city of Reims. Formerly called Châlons ...

. It was set up as the museum for the department in 1794 to house artworks confiscated from

émigré An ''émigré'' () is a person who has emigrated, often with a connotation of political or social exile or self-exile. The word is the past participle of the French verb ''émigrer'' meaning "to emigrate". French Huguenots Many French Hugueno ...

s and religious houses.

Sources

' *http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_8=MUSEO&VALUE_8=5110801 *Jean-Pierre Ravaux, ''Histoire du musée de Châlons-en-Champagne de la Révolution au Second Empire''; Mémoires de la SACSAM, tome CXI – 1996, et dans Mélanges en hommage à Jean-Pierre Ravaux, édition de la SAMCC, 2010. Chalons Museums in Marne (department) {{France-museum-stub