Museums in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence

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.

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.

04360 Moustiers-Sainte-Marie

The Musée de la Faïence in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, traces the history of local faiencière production, from the 18th to the 20th century, through a rich collection of artisanal and industrial objects.

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.

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.

04500 Allemagne-en-Provence

The archaeological museum of Germany-en-Provence, near Riez, preserves Gallo-Roman lapidary collections. Originally housed in a Baptistery, he will soon be transferred to a private hotel in the old centre.