Museums in Poitou-Charente

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.

86200 Arçay

The Charbonneau-Lassay Museum, located in Loudun, New Aquitaine, is a mansion dating from the 18th and 18th centuries with a variety of archaeological, artistic and ethnological collections, left by local scholars.

Musée d'Archéologie gallo-romaine
17100 Bussac-sur-Charente

The archaeological museum of Saintes, located in Charente-Maritime, exhibits Gallo-Roman and ancient remains from local excavations, including sculptures and architectural elements from the 1st to the 3rd century.

Musée de la Préhistoire
17770 Saint-Césaire

The Paleosite de Saint-Césaire is a prehistory interpretive centre located in Charente-Maritime, near the archaeological site of the Roche in Pierrot, famous for the discovery of the Neandertal skeleton 'Pierrette' in 1979.

86500 Jouhet

The Montmorillon Art and History Museum, located in Montmorillon, Vienna, has preserved archaeological, artistic and ethnographic collections from donations and local excavations since 1937.

Musée d'Archéologie gallo-romaine
17120 Barzan

The Gallo-Roman site and museum of the Fâ in Barzan, New Aquitaine, reveals an ancient port town of the 2nd century, with temples, theatre and thermal baths. Stunned since 1994, it bears witness to the commercial importance of Novioregum.

79000 Bessines

The Donjon Ethnographic and Archaeological Museum, housed in a 12th century medieval fortress in Niort, combines Poitevin collections with local archaeological remains.