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The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is the city's museum of fine arts, founded in 1809 and housed since 1892 in a palace on Place de la République designed by Édouard Bérard and Fernand Delmas. Its collections include paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya, Delacroix and Courbet, 19th-century sculpture and 18th-century relief models of fortified towns.
The Hospice Comtesse is a former hospital in Old Lille, founded in 1237 by Joan, Countess of Flanders. Rebuilt after fires in 1468 and 1649, its brick buildings around a cobbled courtyard include the patients' hall with its wooden ceiling and a 17th-century chapel. Since 1962 it has been a museum of Flemish furniture, paintings, tapestries and life in old Lille.
The Birthplace of Charles de Gaulle is the town house at 9 rue Princesse in Old Lille where the future general and president was born on 22 November 1890, in the home of his maternal grandparents. Opened as a museum in 1983, it shows rooms furnished as in the late 19th century and traces his family, childhood and career.
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