Le Hiéron is a singular building with an inhabited architecture. It is one of the few buildings in France to have been designed as a museum from the outset. Completed in 1893, and recently protected as a Monument Historique, this imposing building is surprisingly light inside, thanks to the skylights through which the light filters. The delicate presentation, concerned with both meaning and form, crosses art, history, anthropology and religion. From the Romanesque portal of Anzy-le-Duc (12th century), listed as a Historic Monument, to a remarkable collection of Italian paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, to some thirty artists from the 20th and 21st centuries revealed in a harmonious balance between the art of yesterday and the art of today.
