Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau
The musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau is a town museum in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in France. In 1864 it was founded by the Société des Amis des Arts de Pau and by its president Charles Le Cœur, who became the museum's first curator. Initially housed in the Parlement of Pau, then in the town's former asylum and finally in its own building, designed by the architect Jacques Ruillier between 1929 and 1931.
Notably formed by the gift of La Caze's collection and purchases at salons of the local Société des Amis des Arts, its collection covers 16th to 20th century European fine arts, especially 19th century French art such as A Cotton Office in New Orleans by Edgar Degas.