Experts' Choice Award Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
What the experts agree on
France's second-largest art collection after the Louvre, housed in a grand 19th-century building. Expect vast, diverse galleries of Flemish and Dutch masters like Rubens, Van Dyck, and Manet.
Lonely PlanetTop choice
"Claims France's second-largest collection after Paris' Musée du Louvre. Its cache of sublime 15th- to 20th-century paintings include works by Rubens, Van Dyck and Manet." Full review
Afar Magazine "enormous and endless and diverse." Full review
Michelin Guide 3 Stars
"Built between 1887 and 1892, this palace was extended in the 1990s by the architects Jean-Marc Ibos and Myrto Vitart, who added a narrow 70m x 6.50m building, the screen-printed glass..." Full review
