Château de Baugé - Musée d'art et d'histoire

The Chateau de Bauge was built in the fifteenth century by René of Anjou into his hunting lodge.
Located in the center of the walled city of Anjou, it now houses the Museum of Art and History of Bauge and interactive exhibition about the life of King René.
The first floor of the castle presents such topics as the dynasty of the dukes of Anjou, Anjou and Europe, chivalry and tournaments, courtly love and the Cross of Anjou, later became the Cross of Lorraine .

Created in 1905 by the city, the museum showcases a wide variety of collections: numismatics, weapons and ancient ceramics, folk arts and traditions ... and a small cabinet of curiosities paleontological and anthropological.

Some ceramic pieces are exceptional, such as ceramics of fifteenth and sixteenth centuries similar to the apothecary kept at Bauge since 1720. The museum's collections regularly added Baugé of ancient and contemporary ceramics.