Les Abattoirs
A modern and contemporary art museum converted from a 19th-century red-brick slaughterhouse. Its star piece is Picasso's huge stage curtain.
Les Abattoirs is a contemporary art museum converted from a red-brick municipal slaughterhouse built in 1831. It opened in 2000 and serves as Toulouse's modern and contemporary art museum and as the regional contemporary art foundation. The collection has about 4,000 works from the 20th century onward. The most famous piece is Picasso's giant curtain painted for a theatre production, Remains of a Minotaur in Clown Costume, which is shown only during certain periods to protect it. The garden behind the museum overlooks the Garonne. It is on the left bank, near the Saint-Cyprien station on metro Line A.
Opening hours
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays, 12:00–18:00
Nearby sights
- Bazacle
- Dôme de la Grave
- Prairie des Filtres
- Pont Neuf, Toulouse
- Quai de la Daurade & Notre-Dame de la Daurade
- Couvent des Jacobins
- Japanese Garden Pierre-Baudis
- Hôtel d'Assézat & Fondation Bemberg