Museums in Vendée

Musée de la guerre 14-18
85390 Mouilleron-en-Pareds

The Clemenceau-de-Lattre National Museum in Mouleron-en-Pareds (Vendée) celebrates two major figures of the 20th century: Georges Clemenceau and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, natives of the village, through their childhood homes and historical collections.

Musée d'Art contemporain
85180 Les Sables-d'Olonne

Modern and contemporary art museum housed in an ancient Benedictine abbey of the seventeenth century, in the Sables-d'Olonne. Pioneer of art in France since 1963.

Écomusée
85270 Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez

The Écomusée de la Bourrine du Bois Juquaud, in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez (Vendée), is a museum dedicated to the traditional habitat of the Breton-Vendéan Marais, restoring the rural life of the 19th and 20th centuries in a preserved natural setting.

85550 La Barre-de-Monts

The Daviaud, an open-air ecomuseum in La Barre-de-Monts (Vendée), has valued the natural and ethnological heritage of the Breton Marais since 1981. It combines exhibitions, historic buildings and preserved landscapes on six hectares.

85240 Faymoreau

The Faymoreau mining centre, in Vendée, is a former mining site of active coal from the 19th to the 20th century, now transformed into a museum tracing the industrial and social history of the region.

85200 Auchay-sur-Vendée

The Musée de Fontenay-le-Comte, located in Fontenay-le-Comte in Vendée (Land of the Loire), is a museum of art and local history created in 1875, home to archaeological, ethnological and artistic collections of the South Vendea.

85680 La Guérinière

The Museum of Traditions in La Guérinière, Vendée, preserves collections of 20th century island objects, furniture and costumes, bearing witness to the daily life of the island of Noirmoutier.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
85330 Noirmoutier-en-l'Île

The Château de Noirmoutier, a 12th century medieval castle on the island of Noirmoutier-en-l'Île in Vendée, now houses a historical museum in its 20-metre high dungeon.