Museums in Aquitaine

64400 Agnos

The Béarnais Museum, founded in 1923 in Oloron-Sainte-Marie (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), exhibits ethnological, archaeological and artistic collections related to Béarn and Adour.

40430 Argelouse

The workshop-museum of Argelouse, located in New Aquitaine, is a former industrial site dedicated to the distillation of resin, a witness of the economic history of the Landes de Gascogne between 1859 and 1954.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
64200 Biarritz

Biarritz Historical Museum is a monument located in the town of Biarritz, New Aquitaine, with no defined period. It bears witness to the local heritage.

40500 Audignon

The Museum of Art and History of Cap de Gascogne, in Saint-Sever (Landes), exhibits medieval lapidary collections and an illuminated 11th century manuscript in an ancient Jacobin convent of the 13th century.

Musée de la mer et de la pêche
40130 Capbreton

The Capbreton Fisheries and Sea Commissioner, located in New Aquitaine, is a place dedicated to local maritime history. This monument highlights the region's fisheries heritage.

Musée d'Art provenant de collections privées
64000 Pau

The Bernadotte Museum, housed in an 18th-century bourgeois house in Pau, traces the life of Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, an Empire Marshal who became king of Sweden and Norway.

40300 Bélus

The Departmental Museum of History and Archaeology, located in Bélus, New Aquitaine, houses prehistoric and Gallo-Roman collections from local excavations. It is associated with the Abbey of Arthous, a Romanesque jewel of the Landes.

Musée de sculpture
40000 Mont-de-Marsan

The Despiau-Wlérick Museum, a glyptotheque dedicated to 20th century figurative sculpture, is located in Mont-de-Marsan in the Lacataye dungeon. Unique in France, it houses major works by Despiau and Wlérick, as well as monumental decorations from the 1930s.