Museums in the Nord Pas-de-Calais

Musée des Beaux-Arts
62300 Lens

The Louvre-Lens Museum, inaugurated in 2012, is an antenna of the Louvre Museum located in Lens, Hauts-de-France, on the former mining site of pit number 9, symbol of cultural and industrial conversion.

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 des Beaux-Arts
62000 Arras

The Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Arras, located in the former Abbey of Saint-Vaast since 1825, houses collections rich in Flemish, Italian and French paintings, as well as major works such as the Neuf Muses de Baglione and the Mays de Notre-Dame de Paris.

Musée d'Art religieux
59000 Lille

The Centre d'Art Sacré de Lille, located in the modern crypt of Notre-Dame-de-la-Treille Cathedral, presents a unique collection of contemporary works on the theme of the Passion, in Lille (Hauts-de-France).

Musée d'histoire de France
59000 Lille

The Musée des Canonniers in Lille, located in a former convent, traces the military history of the city and the Confrérie de Sainte-Barbe since 1483, in the heart of the Hauts-de-France.

Musée de la guerre 39-45
62250 Landrethun-le-Nord

The fortress of Mimoyecques, a German Second World War bunker located in Landrethun-le-Nord (Pas-de-Calais), housed a battery of V3 guns targeting London. Historic site transformed into a museum in 1984.

Musée d'Art contemporain
59140 Dunkerque

Dunkirk's LAAC is a contemporary art museum created in the 1970s with a collection of more than 1,500 works from 1945 to 1980 in an iconic building surrounded by a sculpture garden.

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.