Museums in the Cher

Musée d'histoire de France
18000 Bourges

The Palais Jacques-Coeur, a flamboyant 15th-century Gothic mansion in Bourges, is a civil architectural gem of the Centre-Val de Loire region, witness to the power of its sponsor, Grand Argentier de France.

Musée lapidaire
18000 Bourges

The Berry Museum, located in Bourges in the Centre-Val de Loire region, is a historical and archaeological museum closed since 2021, housing collections ranging from Prehistory to the 19th century in the Hotel Cujas, a Renaissance building.

Musée d'Art provenant de collections privées
18000 Bourges

The Hotel Lallemant, a Renaissance jewel of Bourges (Centre-Val de Loire), is a mansion from the early 16th century, combining Gothic style and Italian influences. Ranked a historic monument in 1840, it now houses the Museum of Decorative Arts.

18100 Méry-sur-Cher

The municipal museum of Vierzon, in the Centre-Val de Loire, traces the local industrial history of the 19th and 20th centuries, including porcelain, glass and the railway, in an ancient industrial site emblematic.

18200 Ainay-le-Vieil

The Musée Saint-Vic, located in Ainay-le-Vieil in the Centre-Val de Loire region, is a municipal museum founded in the early twentieth century, housing local archaeological, artistic and ethnographic collections in a renovated 13th century historic building.

18370 Beddes

The Emile Chénon Museum, located in Châteaumeillant in the Cher, is an archaeological museum dedicated to the ancient history of the city, housing exceptional Gallo-Roman collections in a mansion of the 14th-XIXth centuries.

18000 Bourges

The Musée des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France, located in the old wing of the Bourges Town Hall, has exhibited artisanal masterpieces since 1995, in the heart of a preserved historical area.

18500 Allouis

The Charles VII Castle Museum, housed in a restored medieval dungeon, is located in Mehun-sur-Yèvre (Dear). It houses archaeological collections and decorative arts, including historic porcelain and earthenware.