Museums in Pays-de-la-Loire

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
72000 Le Mans

The Queen Berengère Museum, located in Le Mans in the city of Plantagenêt, is a collection of wooded houses dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, classified as a historical monument. Former bourgeois housing, it was transformed into a museum before its closure in 2022, illustrating Renaissance architecture and the art of living.

85600 La Boissière-de-Montaigu

The Musée du Nord Vendée, located in the former castle of Montaigu, traces the local life from the Gallo-Roman period to today through objects and works of art.

Musée de la forge et de la métallurgie
53400 Denazé

The Museum of the old forge in Denazé, located in the Pays de la Loire, is a monument dedicated to the local history and traditional handicrafts of the forge in this region.

Musée de l'architecture et du patrimoine
53800 Renazé

The Renazé Slate Museum in Mayenne traces the local mining history since the Middle Ages through exhibitions and demonstrations on the extraction and size of slate in a reconstructed site around an extraction well.

Écomusée
53250 Madré

The Écomusée de Madré, located in the municipality of the same name in Pays de la Loire, is a place dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of local and rural heritage.

72500 Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf

Former municipal museum of Château-du-Loir, closed in 1968, housing various collections (beaux-arts, archaeology, ethnography) in the Sarthe, Pays de la Loire.

Musée d'histoire naturelle et de Paléontologie
49100 Angers

The Natural History Museum of Angers, founded in the early 19th century, houses 830,000 scientific specimens in a neoclassical hotel and a former town hall in the heart of the Pays de la Loire.

Musée d'histoire naturelle et de Paléontologie
72000 Le Mans

The Musée Vert, a museum of natural history in Le Mans, housed in an old school of the late 19th century, houses scientific and historical collections since 1792, in the Pays de la Loire.