Museums in Pays-de-la-Loire

53500 Ernée

The Municipal Museum of Ernée, located in Pays de la Loire, is a 19th-century building with archaeological collections, prehistory in the Middle Ages, including Gallo-Roman tiles and a Neolithic covered alley.

Automotive Museum
72000 Le Mans

The Museum of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, formerly the Sarthe automotive museum, is a space dedicated to car racing, located near the mythical circuit of Le Mans in Pays de la Loire. It houses more than 120 competition vehicles and traces the history of the 24 Hours.

Middle Ages Museum
72000 Le Mans

The Plantagenet Square, the museum of archaeology and history of Maine, is located in Le Mans in a former medieval convent. It traces the local history of Prehistory in the Middle Ages through archaeological collections and remains.

Museum of Art and Local History
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.

Museum of Fine Arts
72000 Le Mans

The Tesse Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts of Mans, is housed in an ancient 19th-century Episcopal Palace. It houses various collections, including an important Egyptian section and European paintings from the 14th to the 20th century.

Museum of Natural History and Paleontology
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.

Museum-Library
72120 Saint-Calais

The Musée-Bibliothèque de Saint-Calais, home to an ancient foundation, is located in the city of Saint-Calais, in the Pays de la Loire region. This cultural site preserves historical documentary heritage.

72270 Arthezé

The Museum of earthenware of Malicorn, located in Malicorn-sur-Sarthe (Land of the Loire), is a museum dedicated to ceramics and local history, installed in an old 19th century factory.