Musée Angladon

The Musée Angladon, at 5 Rue Laboureur in Avignon, is a small private-collection museum in an 18th-century town house in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of France. It was created from the collection of the Parisian couturier Jacques Doucet, later inherited by the painter Paulin Bertrand, and the Angladon-Dubrujeaud family opened it to the public in 1996. The rooms are arranged like a lived-in home, with period furniture, Asian art and decorative objects, and paintings hang beside them. The collection is best known for Vincent van Gogh's Railway Wagons, painted in Arles in 1888, which is the only Van Gogh painting on display in Provence. Other works include pieces by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani and Alfred Sisley, together with Italian Renaissance paintings and Louis XVI-style furnishings. A basement gallery hosts the Doucet fashion archive and rotating exhibitions. The scale is intimate, so a visit takes around an hour, and the museum is not crowded, though the Van Gogh room can be busy in July. The building lies about eight minutes on foot from Place de l'Horloge, close to the Musée Calvet. Entry costs about EUR 8 to 9, and opening hours are shorter in winter, so checking ahead is wise. The museum is generally closed on Mondays and in the mornings.