The Champagne-Ardenne region offers many occasions to comprehend culture in all its forms and Central Champagne is no exception in this field.

Museums

Châlons-en-Champagne:

Museum of fine arts and archeology of Châlons-en-Champagne
Archeology (large Gaul collections). Traditional champagne home. Sculptures from the Middle-Ages (three retables) until Rodin. Paintings galery. (XV°-XX° century). Hindu deities

Garinet Museum
Partially gothic house and collections from an art lover of 19th century pieces of work

Schiller and Goethe Museum
Personal objects, furniture, china belonging to Schiller and his family, donated to France in 1952 by the Baroness Sophie von GleichenRusswurm.
Tribute paid to Goethe, a great German writer at the time of Enlightenment who was a friend of Schiller, and who was present at the Valmy battle.

• Museums of Châlons-en-Champagne

Sainte-Ménehould:

Sainte-Ménehould city Museum
Many problems have occurred for a few years: lack of room, preservation problem, opening to the public not long enough, increasing collections in the library, old premises...

Its poor state is such a problem that we were obliged to close the city Museum to the public in 2004 for safety reasons (after an expertise report).

The town hall wish to renovate the whole building to turn it into a cultural building "Médialibrary-Museum", largely open to the public, offering the best welcome and work conditions, much more functional and using the new technologies.

• Ste Ménehould Museum

Auditoriums and shows

Châlons-en-Champagne

La Comète   
national theatre)

L'Entre-sort de Furies
Theatre and house of the association Furies

Furies Festival
festival of circus and street theatre, created in 1990 by a group of artists
Each year, start of June, 1 week of shows

Festival des musiques d'ici et d'ailleurs
each summer from July until mid-August: a display of world musics

"Le Châlons du rire" , 
 National Festival of satirical singers
Châlons is the city where Pierre Dac, the humorist, was born, the festival is the occasion to pay him a tribute by inviting young talents to make a live show. 

• Entre-sort des Furies auditorium
• Furies Festival
• Write to: Comète auditorium

Vitry-le-François

L'Orange bleue
a cultural structure dedicated to current musical trends

Simone Signoret Space
Multi-disciplinary programmes: theatre, danse, song, contemporary circus

• Orange Bleue
• Simone Signoret Room

Training bodies

Châlons-en-Champagne

National Centre of Circus Arts (CNAC)
Establishment from the Ministry of Culture depending on the Direction of Theatre and Shows, lthe CNAC is an international training centre. Its mission is to take part in the development of circus arts.

Polyphonic Art Centre of Champagne-Ardenne

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• Centre of Polyphonic Art
• National Centre of Circus Arts

Noticeable monuments of the heritage

Châlons-en-Champagne

- Cathedral Saint-Etienne (Cl. MH)
- Church Notre-Dame-en-Vaux (Cl. MH) listen to its nice bells
- Vestiges of Notre-Dame-en-Vaux cloister, near the church Notre-Dame-en-Vaux (Cl. MH)
- Door Sainte-Croix (Cl. MH)
- Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts et Métiers (Engineering School) facades and roofs of the former seminary and the Empire pavilion (Cl. MH)
- Circus polygonal building, and decoration of the fomer stall
- Covered market facades, roof and metal structure
- Numerous house facades with wood framing

L'Epine

Notre-Dame Basilica (Cl. MH 1840)

Sainte-Ménehould

- Château church (Cl. MH 21 juillet 1930)
- Town Hall external facades and roofs (Cl. MH 4 janvier 1922)
- Valmy Mill: famous place of the Valmy battle in 1792
- Saint-Rouin Hermitage

Vitry-Le-Francois

- Church Notre-Dame (Cl. MH 13 September 1920)
- The Square of Arms and the Goddess: the fountain, headed by a statute glorifying the Marne river, was made by the sculptor Fournier and the engineer Hubert (1831). The statute is the work of the famous Ironmaster Muel (1842).
- The Bridge Door