Museums in the Hauts-de-France

Musée de la guerre 39-45
62250 Landrethun-le-Nord

The fortress of Mimoyecques, a German Second World War bunker located in Landrethun-le-Nord (Pas-de-Calais), housed a battery of V3 guns targeting London. Historic site transformed into a museum in 1984.

Musée de la résistance et de la déportation
60200 Compiègne

The Memorial of the Internment and Deportation of Royallieu, in Compiègne, Hauts-de-France, is a former Nazi transit camp (1941-1944) where 54,000 resistance fighters, Jews and Gypsies were interned before their deportation to Auschwitz, Buchenwald and other camps.

Musée des Beaux-Arts
62300 Lens

The Louvre-Lens Museum, inaugurated in 2012, is an antenna of the Louvre Museum located in Lens, Hauts-de-France, on the former mining site of pit number 9, symbol of cultural and industrial conversion.

Musée du jouet et de la miniature
59279 Loon-Plage

The Museum of Traditional Games in Loon-Plage, located in the Hauts-de-France, is a place dedicated to the preservation of local popular games. Located in Loon-Plage, it highlights a unique intangible cultural heritage.

Musée des Arts de la ville
02100 Essigny-le-Petit

The Antoine-Lécuyer Museum in Saint-Quentin, Hauts-de-France, houses an exceptional collection of pastels by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Reconstructed after 1918, he embodied 18th-century French classical art.

Musée de la nature et de la faune sauvage
60300 Apremont

The Vénerie Museum, located in the former Priory Saint-Maurice in Senlis (Oise), traces the history of hunting through iconographic collections and historical objects, in the heart of the park of the royal castle classified.

Musée du monde paysan
60360 Hétomesnil

A rural museum that preserves the farm heritage in Hétomesnil, Hauts-de-France. Ancient objects and traditional machines tell the story of peasant life.

Musée de l'aviation
60430 Warluis

The Warluis Aviation Museum, located in the Hauts-de-France, is a space dedicated to aviation history in the town of Warluis. Its opening and exact period remain undetermined.