Located in the town of Chelles, in Seine-et-Marne, the Alfred Bonno museum owes its name to the former parish priest of the town, Father Bonno, who bequeathed his personal collection of archaeological objects to the town in 1921.
Housed in the former 19th century town hall-school, it covers the great periods of Prehistory up to the 19th century with in particular cut flint from the Paleolithic, polished axes from the Neolithic period, coins, ornaments and even Gallo-Roman, medieval or modern ceramics, as well as Merovingian fabrics, including clothes that belonged to Queen Bathilde.
To these elements are also added paintings, sketches and drawings by Guy-Pierre Fauconnet, a local artist who worked in the 19th and early 20th centuries for the theater and the Poiret fashion house.
