Museums in the Cher

Musée d'Art contemporain
18000 Bourges

The Estève Museum in Bourges, housed in the former Hôtel des Échevins, exhibits the works of the painter Maurice Estève. Located in the Centre-Val de Loire, it traces its artistic journey from 1919 to 1989.

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.

Musée du tracteur et du matériel agricole
18100 Vierzon

Former industrial factory of the late 19th and early 20th century in Vierzon, in the Centre-Val de Loire, emblematic of French agricultural history. Turned into a museum, it preserves remarkable historical buildings.

Musée d'histoire naturelle et de Paléontologie
18000 Bourges

The Bourges Museum of Natural History, created in 1927, is a municipal museum dedicated to zoology, botany and geology, located in the Cher in the Centre-Val de Loire. It houses rare collections like the Hans elephant and specializes in the study of bats.

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.

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.

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.

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.