Museums in the Nièvre

Musée des Beaux-Arts
58000 Challuy

The Musée de la Faïence et des Beaux-Arts de Nevers, located in the former Notre-Dame Abbey, exhibits collections of faiences, glazed glasses and paintings, in the heart of the historical district of the faïenciers (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté).

Musée d'Archéologie et d'Antiquité
58000 Challuy

The Nivernais Archaeological Museum, housed in a 14th century medieval tower in Nevers, exhibits Greek, Roman and medieval antiquities as well as a local religious heritage.

Musée des hommes d'état et des Présidents
58120 Château-Chinon (Ville)

The Musée du Septennat, in Château-Chinon (Nièvre), presents official gifts received by François Mitterrand during his two presidential mandates (1981-1995), in a former 18th-century convent in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

Musée des écrivains célèbres
58500 Clamecy

The Roman Art and History Museum Rolland, housed in a 17th-century hotel in Clamecy, Nièvre, traces local history, archaeology and celebrates the writer Romain Rolland, born in this house labeled Maisons des Illustres.

Musée d'Archéologie et d'Antiquité
58210 Beuvron

The Auguste-Grasset Museum in Varzy, located in the Nièvre in Burgundy-Franche-Comté, is a 19th-century cabinet of curiosities with varied archaeological, artistic and ethnographic collections, mainly from the collector Auguste Grasset.

Musée de la résistance et de la déportation
58230 Saint-Brisson

The Musée de la Résistance en Morvan, located in Saint-Brisson (Nièvre), traces the history of the maquis and the struggle against German occupation during the Second World War in the heart of the regional natural park.

Musée de la résistance et de la déportation
58360 Saint-Honoré-les-Bains

The Musée de la Résistance Georges Perraudin, in Saint-Honoré-les-Bains (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté), preserves thousands of rare documents of the Second World War in the former Guet hotel, emblematic of the Niverese resistance.

Musée de la mode et des accessoires
58120 Château-Chinon (Ville)

The Costume Museum in Château-Chinon, labeled "Musée de France", traces the evolution of French fashion from the 18th to the 20th century in a mansion in Morvan (Bourgogne-Franche-Comté).