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 explore 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.
Renewed and lively exhibitions
The museum offers a lively tour, combining permanent and temporary exhibitions. The current exhibition, "The Collection Revealed," offers a unique perspective on all the works preserved. Visitors can rediscover the diversity and richness of the Sérusier repertoire, while being surprised by events and conferences throughout the year.
A museum rooted in the region and a unique heritage trail
Located in the very town where the Sérusiers lived and created, the museum showcases the inspiration drawn from Breton landscapes. The "In the Footsteps of the Sérusiers" tour extends this immersion: it guides visitors through the town and the surrounding nature, 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. 
An artistic and cultural heritage to share
Beyond the works, the museum offers a dynamic cultural program: workshops, thematic guided tours, meetings, and events. This vibrant cultural center makes the discovery of symbolism accessible to all, while highlighting the human and committed dimension of the Sérusier couple, between Breton tradition and artistic modernity.
Paul Sérusier occupies a major place in the history of the Nabis , which he helped to found in 1888. It was under the direct influence of Paul Gauguin, during a stay in Pont-Aven, that Sérusier painted the emblematic work "The Talisman": this small landscape, produced "under dictation" by the master, became the aesthetic manifesto of a group of young artists eager for renewal.
Beyond the break with Impressionism, Sérusier embodies the shift towards subjective, symbolic, and decorative painting. He encourages his comrades to move away from naturalism and to simplify forms and colors to express emotions, spirituality, and inner truth.
His role as mentor and theoretician is central: he gives coherence to the movement and inspires Maurice Denis, who will formulate the famous idea that "the painting, before being a warhorse or a naked woman, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order."
Sérusier did not just initiate: he transmitted, taught, and worked to spread Nabi ideas through exhibitions, decor, magazines, and his involvement with the Académie Ranson. His legacy remains inseparable from the Nabi aesthetic: pure colors, flat tints, disrupted perspectives, but also a quest for the invisible and the affirmation of painting as the language of the soul. Thanks to Sérusier, the Nabi became a true "prophet" of modernity.
