The life of the museum is punctuated by the life of its collections: some works may be loaned out, others need to be restored or remain in storage to be preserved... All these elements explain why the hanging of the collection in the exhibition room changes regularly.

So, to allow our temporary exhibition "The Wind. That which cannot be painted" to unfold, part of the permanent collections has been exceptionally removed. Some of our works are therefore not visible, temporarily, but others have been moved to the first floor of the museum - in particular our Claude Monet collection, which allows visitors to enjoy all the works in the collection in the same space.

The collection of ancient art dating from 16th, 17th and 18th centuries is grouped by theme: religious painting, portraiture, still life, landscape, etc. Most of the major national schools (Spanish, Dutch, Italian, French) are represented through the works of Ribera, ter Brugghen, Vouet, Hubert Robert, and other artists.

Paintings by Géricault, Delacroix, Troyon, Millet, Courbet and Corot give an overview of the major artistic movements of the 19th century such as Romanticism, the Barbizon school and Naturalism.
Géricault's The Old Italian Woman is displayed next to Portrait of Charles-André Langevin, painted in 1845 by Jean-François Millet.
Landscape at Champrosay provides a rare example of the landscape genre by Delacroix.
The museum boasts a portrait by Corot, as well as an evening view of Dunkirk.
Gustave Courbet's new approach to painting with "seascapes" finds full expression in The Wave.

MuMa possesses the largest collection of artworks by Eugène Boudin held at any public institution. Their display captures the essence of the work of this painter, who was Claude Monet's first master, succeeded by Jongkind.
The works on display include salon pieces such as The Pardon of Ste-Anne-La-Palud, still lifes, and series of sketches on cows, seaside resort society, washerwomen and the sky. Presented with Eugène Boudin are the great innovators of landscape painting such as Constable, Jongkind and Lépine, the predecessors of the Impressionists.

Enriched by the Senn-Foulds donation, MuMa now boasts one of the most prestigious collections of Impressionist art.
Works by Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Manet, Degas and Cross feature prominently, ideally displayed in the very light that gave rise to the movement.

In addition to Impressionism, the museum's collection offers a vast panorama of artistic creation in France at the turn of the century.
The works amassed by art connoisseurs from Le Havre, all members or friends of the Cercle de l'Art Moderne, provide a representative cross-section of the history of art in the final decades of the 19th century, at a time when the liberation of colour was reaching its height.
Various Nabi artists such as Vallotton, Sérusier, Bonnard and Vuillard share space with Fauves like van Dongen, Marquet, Derain and Friesz.

Born in Le Havre in 1877, Raoul Dufy was a leading figure in the Fauve adventure, along with fellow artists Georges Braque and Othon Friesz.
Enriched with a major bequest from Madame Dufy in 1963, the MuMa collection provides a complete overview of the artist's work, from his early paintings in Normandy under the influence of Impressionism to his later, more mature output. As with all the Fauves, Dufy's approach evolved quickly into a personal style with his own vocabulary, often linked to the maritime influence of his childhood in Le Havre. Sailboats, mermaids, bathers and cargo ships all bring life to his works, where colour is given great volubility of expression.