Museums in the Finistère

Musée des Beaux-Arts
29200 Brest

The Brest Museum of Fine Arts, located in Brittany, is an art museum rebuilt after 1945, housing collections of old and modern paintings in an iconic post-war building.

29242 Ouessant

The Musée des Phares et Balises, located near the Phare du Créac'h in Ouessant, Brittany, traces the technical history of maritime signs since ancient times with unique collections.

Musée des arts et traditions populaires
29000 Quimper

The Breton departmental museum, housed in the former Palace of the Bishops of Cornwall in Quimper (XVIth–XIXth centuries), presents archaeology, the arts and traditions of Finistère, from Prehistory to the 20th century.

Musée de la mer et de la pêche
29100 Douarnenez

The Port-Musée de Douarnenez, inaugurated in 1993 in the Finistère, is a maritime museum unique in Brittany, combining conservation of historic boats and exhibition of objects related to fishing, cabotage and pleasure, in the heart of an old cannery of sardines.

Musée d'Art religieux
29560 Landévennec

The Museum of the Former Abbey of Landévennec, located in Brittany, presents the remains of an abbey founded in the fifth century by Saint Guénolé, one of the oldest in Brittany, and its rich and tormented medieval history.

Musée de la mode et des accessoires
29120 Pont-l'Abbé

The Bigouden Museum in Pont-l'Abbé is a museum located in Brittany, offering an overview of the local heritage. This cultural place is located in the emblematic city of Pont-l'Abbé, in the Breton region.

29930 Pont-Aven

The Pont-Aven Museum, located in Brittany, traces the artistic history of the city since 1860, with more than 4,500 works related to the Pont-Aven School and the Breton painting of the twentieth century.

29560 Argol

The Musée de l'École Rurale en Bretagne, located in Argol, traces the history of the primary school of the Third Republic in the 1970s through various collections and a reconstruction of the classroom of the early twentieth century.