Museums in the Landes

Musée des arts et traditions populaires
40170 Lit-et-Mixe

The Museum of Old Landes in Lit-et-Mixe, located in New Aquitaine, is an area dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of local heritage. His history and exact period remain undetermined.

Musée de l'aviation
40600 Biscarrosse

The Biscarrosse Historical Hydroplane Museum, labeled Musée de France, traces the history of seaplanes on the site of the former Latécoère base in Biscarrosse (Landes), New Aquitaine.

Musée d'histoire naturelle et de Paléontologie
40100 Dax

The Borda Museum, founded in 1807 in Dax (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), is a museum of art, archaeology and science from the cabinet of curiosities of Jacques-François de Borda d'Oro. Labeled Museum of France, it houses various collections, from Prehistory to contemporary Irish art.

40430 Argelouse

The workshop-museum of Argelouse, located in New Aquitaine, is a former industrial site dedicated to the distillation of resin, a witness of the economic history of the Landes de Gascogne between 1859 and 1954.

Musée de sculpture
40000 Mont-de-Marsan

The Despiau-Wlérick Museum, a glyptotheque dedicated to 20th century figurative sculpture, is located in Mont-de-Marsan in the Lacataye dungeon. Unique in France, it houses major works by Despiau and Wlérick, as well as monumental decorations from the 1930s.

Musée des arts de la table
40320 Arboucave

The departmental museum of earthenware and table arts in Samadet, located in the Landes, traces the history of the 18th century Royal Manufacture of earthenware and the evolution of the culinary arts.

Musée de la mer et de la pêche
40130 Capbreton

The Capbreton Fisheries and Sea Commissioner, located in New Aquitaine, is a place dedicated to local maritime history. This monument highlights the region's fisheries heritage.

Musée des arts et traditions populaires
40140 Soustons

The Museum of Traditions and Old Tools in Soustons, in the Landes, exhibits thousands of ancient tools in a Second Empire building, bearing witness to the crafts of the past in New Aquitaine.