Museums in Poitou-Charente

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 du protestantisme
17000 La Rochelle

The Protestant Museum of La Rochelle, housed in an annex to the Protestant temple, traces the religious history of Protestantism in Aunis-Saintonge since the 17th century. Located at 2 rue Saint-Michel, it houses historical collections and a rare library.

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 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.

86100 Antran

The Grand Atelier, a museum of art and industry in Châtellerault, housed in an old 19th century weapons factory, traces local history since Gallo-Roman Antiquity through various collections.

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 de la Marine
17000 La Rochelle

The Maritime Museum of La Rochelle, located in the Old Port, is a water and land museum presenting a heritage fleet of nine classified ships, including three visitors, as well as exhibitions on local maritime history since 1988.

86320 Civaux

The Museum of Prehistory - Raymond Touchard in Lussac-les-Châteaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) exhibits paleolithic objects from local excavations, in a Renaissance residence transformed into a modern cultural space.