Museums in the Landes

Musée de l'armée Française
40100 Dax

The Light Aviation Museum of the Army of Earth in Dax, Landes, is a military museum unique in France. He has been presenting a collection of helicopters and historical archives on the Alat since 1992.

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.

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.

Écomusée
40630 Sabres

The Écomusée de la Grande Lande à Sabres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, is a unique museum complex retracing 19th-century Dutch agro-pastoral life and the transformation of the Landes forest under Napoleon III.

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.

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 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 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.