Museums in Poitou-Charente

86000 Poitiers

The Dune Hypogee Museum in Poitiers houses a funeral chapel from the High Middle Ages, remarkable for its re-employment sculptures dating back to the 6th and 7th centuries.

Musée du débarquement et de la libération
17000 La Rochelle

The Bunker de La Rochelle, the Second World War Museum, is a former German underground shelter located in this port town of New Aquitaine. He testified to the occupation and life of submariners between 1940 and 1945.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
17100 Bussac-sur-Charente

The Dupuy-Mestreau Museum, housed in an 18th-century mansion in Saintes (Charente-Maritime), presents ethnographic collections on traditional life in Saintonge, Aunis and Angoumois until the early 20th century.

Musée des Arts de la ville
86000 Poitiers

The Rupert de Chièvres Museum, housed in a 17th-century mansion in Poitiers, houses collections of Dutch, Flemish and earthenware art, offering an immersion in the world of a 19th-century collector.

Musée de la céramique
17100 La Chapelle-des-Pots

The Saintonge ceramic museum, housed in a Charentaise house in La Chapelle-des-Pots, traces the ancestral art of pottery from the 13th to the 19th century. Closed since 2014, it preserves an oven classified with historical monuments.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
17770 Saint-Césaire

The Bujoliers Museum in Saint-Césaire, Charente-Maritime, is an ethnographic rural museum that reconstructs 19th-century Saintonge life, including the Maison de La Mérine and local collections.

Musée de l'immigration et de l'esclavagisme
17000 La Rochelle

The New World Museum, located in the Hôtel de Fleuriau in La Rochelle, traces the exchanges between France and America since the 16th century, through collections of art and colonial history.

Musée de la moto et du vélo
79500 Melle

The Monet & Goyon Museum in Melle, New Aquitaine, exhibits about 30 restored motorcycles, dating from 1920 to the post-war period, from the Gagnaire family collection.