 | Installed
in two outstanding monuments - the Gallo-Roman public baths dating from the first
centuries AD and the house where the abbots of Cluny lived in the late fifteenth
century - the Museum of the Middle Ages spans almost fifteen centuries of history.
But although its collections include works evoking the end of the Roman empire
and the barbarian invasions, they are best known for the broad panorama they give
of everyday life in the Middle Âges and the Romanesque and Gothic styles
that flourished in the arts of the time: sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, stained
glass, gold and silver work, tapestries… |