Museums in Lorraine

55600 Avioth

The Jules Bastien-Lepage Museum in Montmédy, in the Great East, combines art and military history, housing works by the painter and collections on fortification since ancient times.

55200 Boncourt-sur-Meuse

The Museum of Ceramics and Ivory, housed in ancient Art Deco bath-douchs in Boncourt-sur-Meuse (Great East), houses collections of ivory and earthenware from the 18th to 19th centuries, from exceptional bequests.

55140 Brixey-aux-Chanoines

The Jeanne d'Arc Museum, located in Vaucouleurs in the Great East, traces the Johannic epic through historical and artistic collections from the 16th century to the present.

Museum of Modern Art
57000 Metz

The Pompidou-Metz Centre, inaugurated in 2010, is a modern and contemporary art museum located in Metz, in the Great East. The first cultural decentralization project of the Centre Pompidou Paris, it is distinguished by its bold architecture signed Shigeru Ban, Jean de Gastines and Philip Gumuchdjian.

City Arts Museum
57000 Metz

The Gold Court Museum in Metz, founded in 1839, is a museum of art and history located in the Great East. It houses Gallo-Roman, medieval collections and fine arts in the heart of the city, on the presumed site of the palace of the kings of Austrasia.

Museum of Bread and Meunerie
57720 Volmunster

The Musée du Moulin d'Eschviller in Volmunster (Moselle) is an 18th-century grain mill transformed into a centre for the interpretation of rural techniques, open to the public since 1987 in the Vosges du Nord Natural Park.

Museum of History of France
57230 Bitche

The citadel of Bitche, a 17th century military masterpiece in Moselle, dominates the city with its fortifications designed by Vauban and its turbulent strategic history.

Museum of Art and Local History
57100 Thionville

La Tour aux Puces, 12th century dungeon in Thionville (Moselle), is a former Carolingian fortified building transformed into a municipal museum. Medieval symbol of the Great East.