Museums in the Nord Pas-de-Calais

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
62630 Étaples

The Quentovic Museum, located in Etaples in the Hauts-de-France, is a museum of archaeology and fine arts located in two 17th century private hotels. It traces 540 million years of local history, from fossils to World War I.

Musée des Beaux-Arts
59000 Lille

The Palais des beaux-arts de Lille, built at the end of the 19th century, is the largest museum of fine arts in France outside Paris, housing more than 70,000 works of art and antiques in the heart of Hauts-de-France.

Musée des Artistes peintres célèbres
59360 Le Cateau-Cambrésis

The Palais Fénélon, located at Cateau-Cambrésis in Hauts-de-France, houses the Matisse Museum, the only museum created by the artist during his lifetime in 1952. This 18th-century palace, an ancient refuge of the archbishops of Cambrai, exhibits a rich collection of modern and contemporary works.

62500 Boisdinghem

The Henri Dupuis Museum, housed in an 18th-century hotel in Saint-Omer (Hauts-de-France), houses collections of natural history and original Flemish cuisine, inherited from its founder, Henri Dupuis (1819–89).

Musée de la guerre 14-18
62000 Arras

The Carrière Wellington in Arras is a medieval underground network transformed into a memorial of the First World War, located in the Hauts-de-France. This historic site illustrates the Battle of Arras of 1917 and the lives of the Allied soldiers.

Musée d'Archéologie et d'Antiquité
62440 Harnes

The Harnes Museum of History and Archaeology, opened in 1971, is a space dedicated to local military and archaeological collections, located in the Pas-de-Calais region of Hauts-de-France.

62200 Boulogne-sur-Mer

The Boulogne-sur-Mer Museum, housed in a 13th century medieval comtal castle, houses exceptional archaeological, artistic and ethnological collections from legacy and historical acquisitions.

62600 Berck

The Musée d'Opale Sud, located in Berck, Hauts-de-France, is a museum of art and archaeology created in 1979, highlighting the École de Berck and prehistoric and medieval regional excavations.