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The Aître Saint-Maclou is a former cemetery of the Saint-Maclou parish, created after the Black Death of 1348. Its courtyard is enclosed by timber-framed galleries built from 1526 to hold exhumed bones, their beams carved with skulls, bones and gravediggers' tools. From 1661 to 2014 the buildings housed schools, lastly the city's school of fine arts.

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen is an art museum founded in 1801 and housed since the 1880s in a building by Louis Sauvageot. Its collections run from the 15th century to today, with paintings by Gérard David, Caravaggio, Velázquez, Poussin, Géricault, Delacroix and Monet, and an Impressionist collection given by François Depeaux in 1909.