Museums in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

Musée des Arts Asiatiques et d'Océanie
04000 Digne-les-Bains

Alexandra David-Néel Museum in Digne-les-Bains is a space dedicated to the explorer, located in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. He celebrates his legacy in his hometown.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
04000 Digne-les-Bains

The Gassendi Museum in Digne-les-Bains, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, is a museum of natural history and art museum, founded at the end of the 19th century in a former hospital.

Musée de la Préhistoire
04500 Quinson

The Musée de Préhistoire des gorges du Verdon, located in Quinson (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), is a departmental museum labeled Musée de France, presenting 50 years of local archaeological excavations. Designed by Norman Foster, it traces a million years of human history in Provence.

04110 Aubenas-les-Alpes

The Vachères Archaeological Museum, located in Aubenas-les-Alpes (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), exhibits local collections from regional excavations, including fossils and prehistoric tools dated up to 120,000 years.

04200 Aubignosc

The Gallo-Roman Museum of Sisteron, located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, exhibits local archaeological collections, including an ancient mausoleum of the first century. Located since 2016 in a 16th century mansion, it traces the history of the city since Neolithic.

04300 Dauphin

The Salagon Museum, housed in a Benedictine priory of the 12th–XIXth centuries in Mane (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), combines historical heritage, ethnobotanical gardens and ethnographic collections on Provencal rural life.

Musée de l'immigration et de l'esclavagisme
04230 Ongles

The House of History and Memory of Ongles, opened in 2008 in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, traces the history of the Harki families settled in this village in 1962 after the Algerian war.

04500 Allemagne-en-Provence

The Departmental Museum of Prehistory, located in Quinson (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), exhibits archaeological collections covering 400,000 years of history, from Paleolithic to Late Antiquity, in a contemporary building designed by Norman Foster.