Museums in Charente-Maritime

Musée de la mer et de la pêche
17370 Le Grand-Village-Plage

The natural pole of the Port des Salines, in Grand-Village-Plage on the island of Oléron, is an ecomuseum and reconstituted salt marsh dedicated to the artisanal history of sea salt, integrated into a preserved natural space.

Musée des arts et traditions populaires
17350 Saint-Savinien

The Maison du Patrimoine de Saint-Savinien is a museum of local history located in an old property complex of the village, in Charente-Maritime, highlighting the urban and river heritage of the region since the Prehistory.

Musée de l'immigration et de l'esclavagisme
17000 La Rochelle

The New World Museum, located in the Hôtel de Fleuriau in La Rochelle, traces the exchanges between France and America since the 16th century, through collections of art and colonial history.

Musée d'Archéologie et d'Antiquité
17630 La Flotte Ile de Ré

The old graffiti house, located in Marsilly, Charente-Maritime, is a museum exhibiting copies of regional graffiti and a collection dedicated to the history of photography until the 1980s.

Musée d'histoire naturelle et de Paléontologie
17000 La Rochelle

The Natural History Museum of La Rochelle, housed in an 18th century mansion, houses exceptional scientific and ethnographic collections, including France's oldest natural history firm.

Musée de la Marine
17000 La Rochelle

The Maritime Museum of La Rochelle, located in the Old Port, is a water and land museum presenting a heritage fleet of nine classified ships, including three visitors, as well as exhibitions on local maritime history since 1988.

Musée de la céramique
17100 La Chapelle-des-Pots

The Saintonge ceramic museum, housed in a Charentaise house in La Chapelle-des-Pots, traces the ancestral art of pottery from the 13th to the 19th century. Closed since 2014, it preserves an oven classified with historical monuments.

Musée du débarquement et de la libération
17000 La Rochelle

The Bunker de La Rochelle, the Second World War Museum, is a former German underground shelter located in this port town of New Aquitaine. He testified to the occupation and life of submariners between 1940 and 1945.