Museums in Poitou-Charente

86000 Poitiers

The Natural History Collection is a museum dedicated to nature sciences, located in Poitiers en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, labeled Musée de France.

Musée du cheval et des véhicules hippomobiles
17100 Saintes

The national haras of Saintes, founded in 1846 in a park of nine hectares, was an establishment dedicated to the improvement of equine breeds, located in Saintes in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, before its closure in 2018.

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 d'histoire naturelle et de Paléontologie
17000 La Rochelle

The Natural History Museum of La Rochelle, housed in an 18th century mansion, houses exceptional scientific and ethnographic collections, including France's oldest natural history firm.

Musée des Arts de la ville
17100 Bussac-sur-Charente

The Musée de l'Échevinage, housed in a mansion of the 16th and 18th centuries in Saintes (Charente-Maritime), exhibits 19th-century fine arts and porcelain of Sèvres in the former communal house.

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.

86400 Blanzay

The municipal museum of Blanzay, located in New Aquitaine, is home to Magdalenian and Gallo-Roman archaeological collections from 19th-century local excavations in an 18th-century house.

17000 La Rochelle

The Musée d'Orbigny Bernon, a former 19th-century mansion in La Rochelle, housed collections of decorative arts and ethnology before its closure in 2012. His works were transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts of the city.