Museums in Pays-de-la-Loire

Musée de la guerre 14-18
85390 Mouilleron-en-Pareds

The Clemenceau-de-Lattre National Museum in Mouleron-en-Pareds (Vendée) celebrates two major figures of the 20th century: Georges Clemenceau and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, natives of the village, through their childhood homes and historical collections.

Musée des Beaux-Arts
44000 Nantes

The Nantes Museum of Fine Arts, inaugurated in 1900, is an art museum located in an eclectic palace of the 4th quarter of the 19th century, housing major collections of paintings and sculptures from the 13th to the 21st century.

Musée d'Archéologie et d'Antiquité
53200 Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne

The Château-Gontier Museum of Art and Archaeology, housed in a 17th-century mansion in Mayenne, houses various collections ranging from antiquity to contemporary art in a preserved historical setting.

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'Art naïf
53230 Cossé-le-Vivien

The Robert Tatin Museum, located in Cossé-le-Vivian in Mayenne, is a 20th century artistic environment created by artist Robert Tatin, mixing monumental sculptures and house transformed into a total work of art.

Musée des arts textiles et de la tapisserie
53300 Ambrières-les-Vallées

The Museum of Weavers of Ambrières-les-Vallées, located in Mayenne, highlights the history of hemp and three 18th century weaver houses in an authentic setting.

Musée de la pomme et du cidre
53110 Lassay-les-Châteaux

The Melleray-la-Vallée Cider Museum, located in Lassay-les-Châteaux in Pays de la Loire, is a place dedicated to the valorization of the local cider tradition. His exact history remains to be clarified.

53800 La Boissière

The Musée de l'Ardoise in Rénazé (Pays de la Loire) traces the history of local slate mining, with machines, tools and photographic archives from the 19th century to 1975.