Set in a former house located near the Plô fountain, below the church square, this museum shelters a rich collection of sculptures (capitals, statues...) and artefacts coming from the abbey and displayed on different floors. It was named after Doctor Joseph Fau, Mayor of Conques from 1953 to 1977.
On the ground floor, the visitor can discover high quality painted and gilded wooden statues (15th to 17th century): a crucifix, Christ from a Holy Sepulchre, Saint Roch and a stone statue of Saint Foy, originally positioned under the tympanum until the 19th century, a choir lectern (17th century) and a painting representing Saint Roch, realised in 1843 by Delmas, a painter from Rodez. The interest of this painting comes from the representation of the Saint-Foy abbey-church without its two front tours, in the background.
On the first floor, elements of furniture and decoration dating from the 17th and 18th centuries are displayed in different rooms: an imposing chasuble cupboard with exotic motives carved on the doors, wooden elements of a chimney cover with a painting on canvas, a coffer, a table, a canopy bed made of elements from former altar-pieces (a 1644 panel carries Guillaume Chirac's signature, a master carpenter from Conques). On this floor, the major masterpieces are the seven tapestries made circa 1634 by the Felletin workshops (in the former province of Haute-Marche). They represent the life of Mary-Magdalene and were originally decorations for the abbey Chapter House.
The basement room displays Romanesque capitals and abacuses (11th-12th centuries) coming from the former cloister, lapidary inscriptions and various elements from the original Romanesque church pavement, quite intriguing with its marble and porphyry inlays, and a much older element from the 10th century church, a chancel-screen fragment, etc.
