Museums in Poitou-Charente

Musée de la mer et de la pêche
17630 La Flotte

The Platinum Museum in La Flotte, New Aquitaine, is a monument dedicated to the Flotilla in Pertuis. Its history and period remain to be clarified.

Musée de la faïence
17230 Marans

The Cappon Museum, a former museum labeled Museum of France, was installed in Marans (Charente-Maritime) in an 18th century building. It housed local archaeological collections and earthenware, now missing from regional inventories.

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.

86300 Bonnes

The archaeological and ethnographic museum of Chauvigny, housed in an ancient 17th century presbytery, traces the local history of prehistory in the 20th century through various collections and a medieval dungeon.

Musée des arts et traditions populaires
17240 Clion

The artisanal and rural museum of Clion, housed in a former presbytery in Charente-Maritime, exhibits 1,500 19th-century tools illustrating Saintonge rural life.

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.

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.

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.