Soissons · Aisne
Saint-Léger Museum of Art and History (former Saint-Léger Abbey)
French name: Musée d'art et d'histoire Saint-Léger (ancienne abbaye Saint-Léger)
Free 1st Sunday
Free admission
- Free 1st SundayFree on the first Sunday of every monthApplies to the paying sites of the Soissons municipal museum network.
Address
2 rue de la Congrégation, 02200 Soissons
A museum set in the former Saint-Léger Abbey, founded in 1139 for canons regular, turned into a brewery at the end of the 18th century and then a junior seminary in the 19th. Becoming the municipal museum in the early 20th century, it holds Soissons' archaeology, history and fine art collections.
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