First floor:

16C room: two outstanding series
• A series of painted canvasses that are unique in France. Produced between 1460 and the middle of the 16C to decorate the walls of the old hospice of Reims, these tempera wall hangings are painted on hemp cloth backed with animal skin and depict religious scenes, notably that of the life of Christ. Also on display is L'Indienne (1987) by Gérard Garouste, a contemporary reference to the painted-canvas collection and on long-term loan from FRAC Champagne Ardenne.
• The museum also has thirteen 16C portraits by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his son, Lucas Cranach the Younger. This collection is important from an international point of view both for its quantity and quality. Drawn with a brush on paper using a mixed technique, they portray members of the courts of  Pomerania and Saxony at the time of the Reform. These individualised sketches probably served for oil paintings that can now be found in Germany, Poland and the United States. Since they are very fragile, they are shown only in alternating sets of four as a conservation measure.
 
 17C room
This room contains some frequently outstanding 17C French paintings, which represent some of the museum's finest possessions.
The first series reminds us of the natural links that existed between France and Italy. Another highlights certain artists' taste for reality, including the Le Nain brothers, who were influenced by the art of northern nations.
Other renowned artists evoke the classical movement - Nicolas Poussin, Philippe de Champaigne, François Perrier and Simon Vouet, while others, such as Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet, evoke the Baroque movement.
The Dutch and Flemish schools are also represented by a considerable number of paintings, including those of Roelant Savery, Daniel De Blieck, Martin Boelema de Stomme from the former school and Jacob Jordaens, Gérard Seghers, Pieter Van Mol from the latter.

Two 18C rooms
These two rooms provide a good insight into the great trends of the century: with landscapes paintings, a series of delightful portraits of ladies, including a picture by Boucher illustrating the rocaille style (rococo), but also a number of neo-classical pieces, the most famous of which is "The Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David (and workshop).

Five 19C rooms
The succession of great artistic movements of the 19C are displayed here in chronological order, as well as lesser-known artists who tended towards Orientalism and Symbolism in particular. There is an extremely good selection of 19C landscape paintings, which form another of the museum's highlights, together with genre painting, such as portraits and still lives.
• Art from the first half of the 19C is well-represented by works from the Barbizon School, which have been hung closely together in the style of the 19C “en chandelle” arrangements of the 19C, and by twenty-six landscape paintings and a portrait by Camille Corot: the most important of any of the world museum collections after that of the Louvre.
The Corot collection is acknowledged by experts to be truly world-class and provides a comprehensive overview of his work, covering his career as an artist from the time of his first trip to Rome up to his approaching death, from 1825 to 1870.
• There are also some fine examples of other movements, such as the Romantic Movement with works by Théodore Chassériau and Eugène Delacroix, Realism with Honoré Daumier and Gustave Courbet, as well as the pre-Impressionists (Stanislas Lépine, Eugène Boudin, Johann-Barthold Jongkind…), the Impressionists (Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir…), Orientalists (Eugène Fromentin, Alphonse-Etienne Dinet…) and post-Impressionists (Maxime Maufra, Aristide Maillol…).