The Sérusier Museum in Chateauneuf du Faou, Brittany

The Sérusier Museum: an immersion in the work of an artist couple

In the heart of Châteauneuf-du-Faou, the Sérusier Museum invites you to discover the unique world of Paul and Marguerite Sérusier. Explore the permanent collection to discover the artistic evolution of this visionary couple who profoundly influenced Breton Symbolism. Through paintings, sketches, and objects, immerse yourself in vibrant, colorful art imbued with spirituality. 

Fresh and engaging exhibitions

The museum offers a lively experience, combining permanent and temporary exhibitions. The current exhibition, "The Collection Revealed," offers a new perspective on the entire collection. Visitors can rediscover the diversity and richness of the Sérusier repertoire, while being surprised by events and lectures throughout the year.

A museum rooted in the local area and a unique heritage trail

Located in the very town where the Sérusiers lived and worked, the museum highlights the inspiration drawn from the Breton landscape. The "In the Footsteps of the Sérusiers" trail extends this immersion: it guides visitors through the town and the surrounding countryside, offering views of the valley, the canal, and the Château de Trévarez, and providing access to unique painted decorations, such as the frescoes in the baptistery.

Artistic and cultural heritage to share

Beyond the artworks, the museum offers a dynamic cultural program: workshops, themed guided tours, meetings, and events. This vibrant cultural center makes the discovery of Symbolism accessible to everyone, while highlighting the human and committed dimension of the Sérusier couple, bridging Breton tradition and artistic modernity.

Paul Sérusier holds a major place in the history of the Nabis, whose founding he helped initiate in 1888. It was under the direct influence of Paul Gauguin, during a stay in Pont-Aven, that Sérusier painted the iconic work "The Talisman": this small landscape, created "under the master's dictation," became the aesthetic manifesto of a group of young artists eager for renewal.

Beyond the break with Impressionism, Sérusier embodies the transition to a subjective, symbolic, and decorative style of painting. He encouraged his companions to move away from naturalism and to simplify forms and colors to express emotion, spirituality, and inner truth.

His role as mentor and theorist is central: he gave coherence to the movement and inspired Maurice Denis, who formulated the famous idea that "a painting, before being a warhorse or a nude woman, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order."

Sérusier did not stop at initiating: he transmitted, taught, and worked to spread Nabis ideas through exhibitions, decorations, journals, and his commitment to the Académie Ranson. His legacy remains inseparable from Nabis aesthetics: pure colors, flat areas, distorted perspectives, but also the quest for the invisible and the affirmation of painting as the language of the soul. Thanks to Sérusier, the Nabi becomes a true "prophet" of modernity.