Museums in Picardy

Écomusée
80230 Saint-Valery-sur-Somme

The Écomusée Picarvie in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, located in the Hauts-de-France, is a place dedicated to the preservation and valorisation of local heritage and traditional Picard life.

Musée des Beaux-Arts
60500 Chantilly

The Condé Museum, located in the Château de Chantilly (Oise, Hauts-de-France), is a 19th century setting with exceptional art collections, left by the Duke of Aumale in an architectural setting combining Renaissance and classicism.

Musée de la guerre 14-18
80300 Albert

The museum Somme 1916, in Albert, Hautes-de-France, is an underground museum dedicated to the First World War, housed in a 250-metre-long anti-aircraft shelter, tracing the lives of soldiers during the Battle of the Somme.

Musée de la guerre 14-18
80300 Ovillers-la-Boisselle

The Lochnagar crater in Ovillers-la-Boisselle (Hauts-de-France) is an emblematic vestige of the Battle of the Somme (1916), formed by the explosion of a British mine. This place of memory, classified as a historic monument, bears witness to the fighting of the First World War.

Musée du bateau et de la batellerie
60150 Longueil-Annel

La Cité des Bateliers is a museum dedicated to French shipping, located in Longeuil-Annel (Hauts-de-France), inaugurated in 2000 in a historic village linked to river navigation and the lateral canal in the Oise.

Musée du cheval et des véhicules hippomobiles
60200 Compiègne

The Musée national de la Care et du Tourisme, located in the Château de Compiègne (Hauts-de-France), traces the history of road transport, from couplings to the first cars, since the seventeenth century.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
80000 Amiens

The Picardie Museum, located in Amiens, is an art and archaeology museum built in the 19th century. It houses collections ranging from Prehistory to the 20th century, in a building designed specifically as the Palace of Fine Arts, an innovative architectural model for the time.

Musée d'Archéologie et d'Antiquité
60550 Verneuil-en-Halatte

The Serge Ramond Museum in Verneuil-en-Halatte, Hauts-de-France, is a place dedicated to local memory. Its history and exact period remain to be specified.