Museums in Aquitaine

Musée de géologie et des volcans
33650 Saucats

The Saucats-La Brède Nature Reserve, classified in 1982 as Gironde, protects 6 major geological sites of the Miocene, including the stratotypes of the Aquitanian and Burdigalian, in the heart of the Landes forest.

Musée d'histoire de France
64000 Pau

Château de Pau, listed as a historical monument in 1840, is a medieval building transformed into a Renaissance palace located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Former residence of the kings of Navarre, it now houses a national museum dedicated to Henry IV, born between its walls in 1553.

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.

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 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.

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 du monde paysan
40380 Montfort-en-Chalosse

The Musée des arts et traditions populaires de la Chalosse, located in Montfort-en-Chalosse (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), re-establishes a typical 19th century agricultural and wine estate, preserving the Chalossese rural identity through traditional habitat, tools and know-how.

Musée de l'aviation
40600 Biscarrosse

The Biscarrosse Historical Hydroplane Museum, labeled Musée de France, traces the history of seaplanes on the site of the former Latécoère base in Biscarrosse (Landes), New Aquitaine.