The Musée de Grenoble is one of the major museums dedicated to Fine Arts in France and Europe. Opened in 1798, it is one of the oldest museums in France. Its collection preserves numerous ancient, modern and contemporary works, as well as an important collection of finds from ancient Egypt, constituting as a whole an exceptional artistic heritage. The collection is housed in 57 different exhibition rooms, to which is added a vast park with sculptures, which extends up to the ancient city walls.

The ancient section is divided into Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities. There are vases, statuettes, funerary stems and other everyday objects. As for painting, the Musée de Grenoble offers a complete retrospective on Western painting from the thirteenth to the twenty-first century, French, Flemish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, illustrated by numerous masterpieces. The 17th century is particularly rich in masterpieces. Even the works of the nineteenth century are numerous, there are in fact several works by the greatest exponents of impressionism and post-impressionism. Furthermore, the Musée de Grenoble was a pioneer for the contemporary art collection: it is the facts known as the oldest French contemporary art museum, the first to buy works by Modigliani or Picasso since the 1920s.

Among the major works of the museum there are, among others, masterpieces such as the "San Sebastiano and Santa Apollonia" by Perugino, the four large panels by Francisco de Zubaran, with the largest collection of the master in France, the "San Geronimo penitente "by Georges de la Tour, the views by Canaletto, portrait of a woman by Modigliani.