The Musée des Augustins is the museum of Fine Arts of Toulouse. It preserves a collection of paintings and sculptures from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. The name of the museum derives from the building in which the museum is located: it is a medieval building, built in 1309 in the Gothic style, and housed an Augustinian convent. The convent was secularized with the French Revolution in 1793, opening to the public as museums two years later, in 1795, shortly after the opening of the Musée du Louvre. The musée des Augustins is therefore one of the oldest museums in France. From the very beginning, the museum's collection has now set itself the goal of representing all eras and all schools. For this reason, the collection is very extensive, and includes works by great Renaissance artists such as Perugino, Guido Reni, Guercino, Rubens, Philippe de Champaigne and several others. It is a collection of over 4000 works, and its fundamental nucleus derives from the confiscation of the properties of the Church during the French Revolution and from the seizures of private collections of emigrant nobles. There are also several works by great names in French painting of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Ingres, Vuillard, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet Utrillo and several others. The collection includes a large amount of sculptures, in particular from the 12th century Romanesque period, but not only. This is due to the great work of the nineteenth century curators, who over time managed to recover the sculptures of religious buildings that had to be destroyed. In particular, the sculptures recovered from the three main religious buildings of the city stand out: the convent of Notre-Dame de la Daurade, the basilica of Saint-Sernin and the cathedral of San Carlo Borromeo in Saint-Étienne. There are also works by Rodin and Thivier, and a bronze by Camille Claudel. The museum is currently closed to the public for refurbishment, and is scheduled to open in 2023.